Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus finding myself in the full clutch of circumstance, though verified by all human experience, a bitter taunt comes to mind and seems justified. It frets my soul to think that the Yanks, a nation far removed and by no means of the first rank, who with invincible logic found themselves in 1914-1918 too proud to fight, should with homely eloquence in 1927 find themselves too proud to learn to read and write...
...dances and triumphs in feminine politics and sports may still have profited somewhat, even by the thin veneer of culture, she also leaves out of the question. The article proves nothing except that the whole question of higher education, its advantages and defects, is too broad for one mind too grasp, especially if that mind be more intent on satire than on sympathy...
...joyous rush of the brook, the contemplation of the eternal flow of the stream, the stretch of forest and mountain, all reduce our egotism, soothe our troubles, and shame our wickedness. . . . I am for fish. Fishing is not so much getting fish as it is a state of mind and a lure of the human soul into refreshment. But it is too long between bites; we must have more fish in proportion to the water...
...sounds almost shocking, yet it is true, that the church does not have as much faith as business." Business courts Change. The church fears it. Business employs pure scientists for research that may mean scrapping not only millions in factories and material but entire attitudes of mind as well. Pure scientists, above pelf and profit, are "the mystics of the modern world." Business sets them free to provoke Change because it knows tomorrow will be different from today. "The church is AFRAID" that tomorrow may be different...
...would be play. On the fleet flagship Carinthia members of the International Board planned to "hold several meetings," to clear up odds and ends left dangling after its big meeting, prior to embarkation, in Manhattan. International President Harry* H. Rogers was there, jovial but with his duties well in mind. He would be chief exchanger of greetings and ideas with Rotarians of all nations...