Word: origination
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...artists remind one of Baalam and his ass. For once more may we say. "And the Lord opened the month of the ass." But no, we cannot lay as the door of the Almighty such a gross, barbarons, wanton picture capable of origin only in the brain of a moron. For if Lampy can find no other material but scorn of the Jewish students in the college and the aspirations and religious ideals of the Jewish race, then it is quite easy to understand the general attitude towards the publication. B. Wantman...
...chief adherent." The fact that Lord Oxford and Asquith alleged as the cause of this extraordinary rebuff only a trifling party insubordination and an attack upon the Government (Conservative) party toward which the Earl has leaned so long, while Mr. George, tugged in the opposite direction, revealed the true origin of the Earl's spleen?exposed anew the gaping Liberal rift...
...reconcile Dr. McAfee's alleged tolerance with Dr. McAfee's own declaration that "there is room in the church for all but the extreme Modernists," the Liberal nominator, Rev. Dr. Roy E. Vale of Oak Park, I11., countered with the fact that Dr. Thompson is a man of lowly origin whom, but for "the clammy hand of death," Mr. Bryan himself would have arisen to describe as one with whom "the integrity of the gospel would be absolutely safe." When thoughtless Dr. George A. Sevier of Denver, , seconding Dr. McAfee, protested that the West was entitled to "recognition" this year...
...ORIGIN OF THE NEXT WAR -John Bakeless - Viking ($2.50). Not more than a handful of excessively well-posted people can afford to miss this book. Since it contains not a word of "war scare" claptrap, there is room upon its vivid pages for enough striking fact and comment to burst the covers off an average volume of like heft. Yet Mr. Bakeless' thesis is expressible in a few lines, which he modestly quotes from General Tasker H. Bliss...
...only for the reasons just given, is the recent increase in numbers in Yale College fundamentally an undesirable thing; it has reacted unfavorably by overcrowding the college at the expense of Sheff, and was, of course, the origin of the chapel change, in that it was the lack of seating accommodation in Battell that led to the alternate-chapel plan of last year which in turn resulted in a reconsideration this year of the whole chapel matter and its recent abolition. One reason for this overcrowding of the college was the transplanting of the select course under its new horticultural...