Word: inexactness
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...Allan L. Benson-Cosmopolitan ($4). The vast rhythms of the dying stars, the sleepy, dwindling music of the tides, the rigadoons that dinosaurs danced in a primeval sunset, the hungry chisels of rain and wind and river; these are the paraphernalia of geology, the most spectacular, if the most inexact of sciences. Most laymen have no notion of its reaches, beyond a superficial jargon, culled from newssheets, of meaninglessly enormous chunks of time and space. For such laymen as prefer facts to fantasies, Author Benson ably, if condescendingly, puts forward geological facts (e.g.-the air ten miles above the equator...
...such strongholds of the "old" history as Harvard this work will be officially frowned upon. Not that it is inexact, or without an array of carefully marshalled factual material. But it is strange ambitious, novel. It is these things inspite of its precursors, men who have tried before to connect history with the reality of life, and not merely with its flags and trappings, who have realized, to quote the Beards themselves, that "the heritage, politics, economics, culture and international filiations of any civilization are so closely woven by fate into one fabric that no human eye can discern...
Added to the statements concerning the degree of Doctor of Philosophy which Percy Marks has seen fit to place within his last discourse upon college life, "Which Way Parnassus?" have recently appeared in "Liberty" the equally inexact remarks of Frederick Pingree, onetime undergraduate at Harvard. Neither of these attempts by certain lay minds to remedy the defects of the present system of graduate work in arts and sciences, culminating in the award of the Ph.D. degree, is, in itself, so grand an attack upon the status quo that it is going in any way to deploy the instruction of graduates...
...Journal of the American Medical Association that pure clay, kaolin, kept in motion with fluids, is beneficial in Asiatic cholera, bacillary dysentery, chronic ulcerative colitis and acute enteritis. In some cases the clay carries away intestinal bacteria, in others mixes with their toxic products. The Journal warns inexact thinkers that many other supposedly beneficial effects of clay-eating are spurious...