Word: pamphleteers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan to aid students in "a wise and advantageous selection of courses" has been advanced through the editorial columns and definite steps for putting it into action have been suggested. The proposed plan is in the nature of a "guide to courses" but will be published in a pamphlet form and a copy be given to each Freshman. The Princetonian has offered to take charge of the selection of three first group and two low group students out of every course who will make up "a concise report on the particular course, with comments on the professor and the subject...
...taught evolution" out of school books approved by that state's educational authorities. It is six months since lavender-gallused Clarence Darrow hunched his shoulders, thrust his jaw and tortured the late William Jennings Bryan with satiric courtroom questions about his faith in Holy Writ. Six months since pamphlet-scattering mountebanks, itinerant fanatics, land-sharks, pickpockets and cheap-johnny "scientists" jostled in the steaming streets of little Dayton, Tenn. Six months since the nation's press bawled daily headlines about a classic struggle between Reason and Religion, Brains and Bigotry, Science and Superstition...
This speech should be of particular interest because of the recent prominence which Bishop Brown has attained in the news of the day by his dismissal from office in the Episcopal church for alleged heretical statements in a pamphlet entitled "Communism and Christianism", which came out last January...
...must remember that, after all, there is very little thought in the average "big seller" and that such a book could, indeed, be reduced to pamphlet, size and still show padding. Mr. Hamilton in developing are theory has merely proved another that most modern novels are expansions of nothing...
...plane. The aviators somersaulted unhurt into the sea. The submarine commander, quickly bringing his craft to the surface, joined his crew in smiling broadly. The accident is thought to be unique. A tourist arriving at Geneva from Italy, last week, is reported to have brought with him a Fascist pamphlet filled catechismwise with questions and answers. An example...