Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learning, research, behaviorism, and pedagogy, that the emotions are often entirely ignored. "But science," says Bertrand Russell, "is no substitute for virtue. The heart is quite as important as the head; in fact, in the last analysis the head is of relatively slight importance." The inscription of Beethoven's mass was "From the heart it has come, to the heart it shall go." For knowledge is constantly changing, while our emotions, our souls, and spirits remain the same, well nourished or starved, as the case...
...that time the attorneys for the defense were able and fully competent to avail themselves of any opportunity to find errors if they existed. "We are coming to the time", Mr. Boynton went on to say, "when the decisions of our courts and their findings are the subject for mass meetings, as if a case could be handled more intelligently in mass meetings than in a courtroom." The popular petitions to alter or set aside decisions usually come from people who know nothing of the case, he believes, and it is evidence that our institutions are endangered...
...Quincy, Mass., last week, one Benjamin F. Earl, argued that to inject anti-rabies serum into dogs was cruel and needless because, he believed, there was no such disease as rabies. Dogs clubbed to death or shot as "mad" suffered only from distemper or a similar relatively mild disease. To establish his belief he offered to let any rabid dog bite him. No rabid dog was handy; no experimenter callous enough to jeopardize Theorist Earl's life...
...from bacteriology to the Scottish influence in 18th Century America, from agricultural geography to city planning, from economics to inter-racial problems, from law to electrochemistry. They will scatter themselves at many a university: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Clark (at Worcester, Mass.), Chicago, Michigan, North Carolina, Stanford...
...Lynn, Mass., a wild seal swam and dived in a stagnant inland pool beside a highway. Thousands of people paused to watch. Traffic on the highway came to a standstill. Unable to disperse the crowd the police, vexed, fetched a riot* gun, slaughtered the seal...