Word: origination
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Origin of Mayas Puzzling...
...something having little or no relation to life. The pedantic professor who treats facts as dry bones is tolerated by his classes with the same coldness as he himself radiates. Such a professor seems to have forgotten that all knowledge--science, philosophy, history, literature, religion--all had their origin in the problems of human life. Such a professor needs to learn that his facts become vital, and fraught with meaning and importance, only when they are thrown into relief against these problems...
Explanations being now in order. Professor Wegener pointed to the well-known sliding propensities of continents to account for their present state of mutual aloofness, thus causing great offence to Professor Jeffrey, who had based his story of the origin of the earth on opposite premises. Scientific discoveries, however, thrive on opposition, and Professor Wegener is not alarmed by the objections of a few conservatives...
...outdone by the science of biology, which has held the limelight for the past half-century through its discovery of the origin of man, geology is making a bid for prominence with a brand new theory of the origin of continents. The other day Professor Wegener of the Austrian University of Graf, while training his hyper-scientific powers of observation on a map of the Atlantic, noticed that the American coast line would fit into the Afro-European one as exactly as the pieces of a picture puzzle. From this interesting phenomenon, he deduced the theory that they had indeed...
...particularly within the radius of Manhattan newspapers). He was 40 years old when he became "card editor of the New York Sun. Soon famed as authority on auction bridge, his production of literature on cards within the last 20 years has been enormous. The "rule of eleven owes its origin to him. Men by the thousand and women by the ten thousand have applied themselves to study of his works with an intensity which would have created a race of theologians had it been devoted to biblical lore. Perhaps the daily bridge women have been asking him questions about religion...