Word: materialistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Materialist?" Professor Porter, Widener...
...Materialist?", Professor Porter, Widner...
...disrepute by the bunk of the day But this being the situation it can only be increased by appeals that openly make Babbit baiting and cash the attraction of what passes for unselfish philanthropy. The undergraduate who would naturally turn to such work has not suddenly become a gross materialist But he is necessarily a creature of his age, and repelled by the shabby hypocrisy and business charlatanism that have invaded the domains of service, has poused his enthusiasm in broader fields...
...rather natural event in the category of 'acts of God.' The conception of a God who acts through the orderly operation of laws rather than by arbitrary acts of will in defiance of them is still hard to grasp. One does not have to be a materialist to believe that the reason for the flood in the bottom lands is not that God is angry with Arkansas and Louisiana but that there ir too much water in the river to run off through the normal channel...
Clarence Darrow criminal lawyer and materialist thinker will treat "Capital Punishment" in his speech at Phillips Brooks House on Friday at 4.30 o'clock. The veteran of the Chicago criminal courts has long been known as the holder of radical theories on the subject, and the list of felons whom he has saved from the death penalty is a long...