Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past months have been brilliant with scientific achievement; vistas have opened up which dazzle the mind's eye, concepts which confuse the weary brain. Interspersed among these rich rare offerings is the common salt of ingenious inventions, pleasant practical devices which immediately add to the flavor of everyday life. They are concerned with: Clothes. Textiles are nothing but interwoven fibres of wool, cotton, linen, silk. The fibres are cheap enough but the weaving process is costly, making the cloth expensive. In Ireland Inventor B. M. Glover of Bruntcliffe, near Leeds, has devised a machine which turns...
...believe that Jesus lived a life wholly blameless and .without sin or wrongdoing?- Yes, 92. Uncertain...
...Moreover among the faithful there grows carelessness of matters religious and of ancient tradition whereby Christian life is supported, domestic society regulated and the sanctity of matrimony defended. The education of youth is completely neglected or spoiled by too effeminate attentions, while the Church even has been deprived of the right to educate youth. Christian modesty is completely forgotten in the mode of dressing and living, especially of women...
...Light of Asia. Ten thousand natives and not a few elephants figure in this life of Gotama Buddha filmed in India by the Emelka Co. of Munich. The acting and photography are uneasy but as curious as an old snuffbox...
Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. set out to make a cinema of life at Yale. Wells Root, able scribe, Yale graduate of 1922, wrote the story. The co-operation of Yale University was sought. Yale officials, however, exhibited coolness. So last week Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. planned to shoot the film in California, to use instead of Yale the name of a fictitious institution of learning...