Word: lies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief weakness of the book seems to lie in the plot. Lundi Druro, the hero, is rapidly drinking himself to death because his finance married another man. Flavia Desmond, the heroine, has field from the society of London and comes to Rhodesia disguised as a man. She falls in love with Druro and throughout the book tries to save him from self destruction. The story offers nothing new: In fact it is rather trite. Moreover the improbability of a young and beautiful girl, living as a man, and with men over an extended period of time and still keeping...
...guide their college path along the line of least resistance, find themselves awkwardly balked by the science, requirement and, panic-stricken, choose whatever course has the least laboratory exercise. Others, by nature scientifically inclined, rejoice at the opportunity here for indulging their appetite. Between these two lie a great number who honestly desire a well-rounded cultivation which will include a general acquaintance with the field of science, but who have been forced by the make-up of the science department to limit their acquaintance to a year spent in some specific field. This enforced imprisonment with test tubes...
...proved his theories so successfully by actual cures that at another meeting of the Academy he was heaped with honors. The modern physician is a descendant of Pasteur. The old untidy family advisor is more a remnant of the days when the efficacy of herbs was thought to lie in the incantations breathed over them by the "medicine man" and when exposure to the moon often brought a deathly sickness. It was the spirit of the French scientist which drove malaria out of Cuba, and which acting through the men trained in the medical schools may yet discover the cause...
Sitting at the ringside was Georges Carpentier. It will be recalled that, after his defeat by Siki, charges were made that the Negro had agreed to "lie down," but forgot his instructions so completely as to knock Carpentier out in the third round. It is not beyond the bounds of probability that Carpentier will now be matched with the inexpert McTigue in Paris. A graceful opportunity is thus afforded him to regain his championship without undergoing the ordeal of trading punches with the disagreeable Senegalese...
...found, in the second place, the eminently practical handling of the subjects dealt with in the Assembly and in the Committees, a handling which gave the lie to the insinuations which are so often made outside, that the League of Nations lives and moves and has its being in an atmosphere of unpractical idealism...