Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...specimens of pottery found in the village are especially famous for the skilfully drawn designs of animals, accurate geometric figures, and pictures of hunting scenes. No other Indian pottery found in this region gives any indication that the prehistoric people were interested in depicting animal life. On many pieces of the pottery are pictures of the Indians shooting bears with bow and arrow others display fights between birds and deer...
...Holmes '61 took his place on the Supreme Bench of the United States, in that room of the Capital which had been the meeting place of Congress during a century of wery kind of ordeal. It is not merely that Justice. Holmes has given twenty-five years of his life to the support of the national integrity to which he was heir, nor yet that no man before him ever served in the Supreme Court at such an advanced age. This is a man who has seen the law not in terms a didactic decisions, but as the ancient instrument...
...Everywhere, except in the moral realm, people know that they cannot successfully let themselves go or do as they please." The idea that it is the law of life to let an instinct like the sex instinct go was scoffed at by Mr. Fosdick. "Take the instinct of pugnacity," he said, "which is very deep in us. Well go out from this house now, get nearly run over by a car loose your temper, beat up the driver, batter in his head. How will you explain yourself to the judge tomorrow morning? Will you say, 'Your Honor...
...exceeds any previous performances. And it is impossible to minimize the importance of a fact upon which comparative strangers are eager to give information at the least encouragement. For the persistency with which it is discussed is a testimony that here is the one factor in daily life that is always of unexceptioal subjective interest...
...term takes on added significance. It has been a matter of common knowledge that the chief executive is thrifty in private life; but the extent to which this is true has not been realized. For it is reported that when Mr. Coolidge retires, having been in office for approximately five years, he will have saved two hundred and fifty thousand dollars from his salary. The annual income of the chief executive is seventy-five thousand dollars; those who know the president claim that he does not spend one-third of this amount. A little simple mathematics reveals the fact that...