Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little "hindsight" that they cannot detect the hand of the present Dictator in a letter which the hodman wrote to a fellow laborer on Sept. 3, 1902. "Dear Friend, "On Saturday, together with a painter out of employment, I went to Orbe-to get taken on as a manual laborer. I found work and on Monday, the 14th, I began: eleven hours' work in the day at 32 centesimi the hour. I made 121 journeys with a handbarrow full of stones up to the second floor of a building in process of construction. In the evening the muscles...
...endowed Aristotle, gave him an heiress to wife and put men at his disposal to collect flora and fauna in all directions. Aristotle studied specimens, made inferences, founded "science." He was tough-minded. None of Plato's mystical generalizations for him. He worked out the first "organon," or manual of logical thought. His fault was "excessive moderation." He corrected errors in earlier nature students, but missed their sense of life's flux and change. Where Plato gave the Catholic Church a political form which lasts today, Aristotle's "organon" lasted only through the unphilosophical pomp and glory...
...Sane Manual...
...they wish all their patients might possess. They pronounce Dr. von Gruber's work the best they have yet seen, especially for its lack of "moral poultice." "Certain portions" of the original are omitted?doubtless descriptive discussion of contraception?but the major portions stand unaltered?a sane, graphic, unequivocal manual of humanity's most vital mechanism...
...chirky. Two or three of these oldsters remembered him 24 years before when in Chicago he cured the then Lolita Armour (now Mrs John J. Mitchell Jr.) and so gained his U. S. fame. At that time he was beginning to look seedy, to show signs of weariness (his manual operation requires terrific force). What had made him grow so vital, so virile? True he was slightly deaf. But otherwise he seemed a man in full prime. Dr. Lorenz laughed at them, laughed with an inner secret...