Word: looming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paul's alumni were surprised if not shocked to hear the news. To be Pennsylvania's bishop coadjutor is a great thing, they thought, but does it compare with being headmaster of St. Paul's? So large does Dr. Drury loom in the minds of St. Paul's men that to them it seemed almost presumptuous of the Pennsylvania Episcopalians to offer him the Number Two position in their State. Even more disquieting was this thought: suppose Dr. Drury should feel that his duty lies in Pennsylvania! What then would become of St.Paul...
...Portrait of a Man he said: "A more graphic title would be Portrait of a Man in a Home-made Suit." Of Artist Sir William Orpen's portrait of Sir Ray Lankester: "The design of the sitter's suit shows dots and blotches as large as buttons. On what loom, one wonders, was such a fabric woven?" About all that the tailor-editor-art critic approved was Artist Oswald Birley's portrait of George V in black jacket, double-breasted fawn waistcoat, grey striped trousers...
Throughout his book he traces his brilliant idea which must perforce rank with the most gracious, sympathetic?and effective?missionary approaches. Two figures loom: the Christ, of course, and Mahatma Gandhi.? It is in Gandhi, he finds, or in one like him, that India will find the Christ. Curious is the parallel which Indians already draw between their great leader and Jesus Christ. Gandhi has suffered, fasted, been imprisoned. And many an Indian, now first glimpsing the new figure on the Indian road, has reverently paralleled Yerravada, Gandhi's first prison, with Calvary...
...Many of the social problems that loom up so ominously before us today will eventually be solved. I feel sure, by experimental work in sociology such as we have recently undertaken at Minnesota," declared Pitirim Sorokin, professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota, and one of the foremost sociologists in the world today. "While as yet we have attempted nothing on a large scale, we have obtained results that quite clearly indicate the future possibilities for an advanced development in this field...
...Secretary Jardine, Senators Moses, Borah and Fess, Speaker Longworth, Under-Secretary Ogden Mills and many another had been saying and repeating what a dreadful thing it would be for the Democrats to obtain power, because they would lower the tariff. The tariff, thanks to Republican persistence, was beginning to loom with Prosperity as one of the campaign issues. National Chairman Work (Republican) drew National Chairman Raskob (Democrat) into a public tariff debate, in the course of which Mr. Raskob promised to resign if it could be shown that Nominee Smith did not favor a protective tariff. That...