Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inserted note, "i. e. a moral code," it is far from doing justice to the persons quoted. They might without hesitation appeal to the New Testament itself, for when Jesus said, "I am the way . . no one cometh unto the Father but by me," He surely did not mean that He was a moral code. When Paul wrote, "It is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me," he was not, of course, professing indifference to morals, but he was "primarily" emphasizing a spiritual experience which he found more fruitful, in ethics and elsewhere, than any "code" could...
...great powers desired a World War. The proportion of responsibility attaching to each country and each statesman is a matter of opinion, and complete agreement on these proportions will never be reached. I entirely agree with the famous doctrine of Lloyd George that the statesmen of Europe did not mean war in 1914 but 'stumbled and staggered into...
Sculptor Brancusi simplifies line and movement until anything may mean anything. Is it then that the honest U.S. inspectors are mentally too advanced to comprehend plain simplifications...
...industrial stagnation set in, the average brain volume of our social failures rose to 1,520 c.c. That looked serious to us and with great interest we read the prognosis of bankers and captains of industry regarding the future. According to predictions the situation improved in 1920, and our mean brain volume sank once more to near the pre-War level...
...Todd played with incidental observations: "Of two heads of the same size one might have as much as 200 c. c. more brains than the other. . . . It is not quantity but quality that matters. It is not the quality of the whole, but of the last small wineglassful. Taking mean values, 1,480 c.c. are needed for a fool, 1,500 for an honest man. And on the average, a lady's cocktail saves us from inanity...