Word: pater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leslie Stephens; Walter Pater; Matthew Arnold," Professor Habbitt, Harvard...
Announcement comes from Washington of a "campaign to stop hoarding." House-to-house canvasses will be made throughout the nation, urging pater families to withdraw his money from the chimney-hole and put it in the corner bank. Colonel Knox, director of the campaign, has said that it "must convince people that the banks are vital to their own interests. The bank is a part of the machinery of life." The people who have lost their life-savings by the closing of banks throughout the country certainly will be surprised to hear that...
...Mary-churches (Chartres, Rheims, Rouen, Paris, Amiens) were built throughout Europe, when monks and nuns were transcribing Mary-legends, when warriors carried banners of the Blessed Virgin, the Rosary-"Our Lady's Psalter"- made its appearance. Simple folk, illiterates or busy ones could substitute 150 Ave Marias or Pater Nosters for the customary recitation of 150 psalms...
Drugs were used in successful treatment of 46 insane persons by Drs. H. Beckett Lang and John A. Pater son of Willard State Hospital, Willard. N. Y. Theirs was the first practical application of a recent Cornell University discovery that insanity is due partly to the colloids of the brain becoming too watery or too coagulated-like thick syrup. For watery colloids sodium amytal was given, for syrupy colloids sodium rhodanate...
Besides this omission and connected with it, is the history of the criticism of art, or of aesthetic thought. It is obvious that a knowledge of what Ruskin, Pater, or Clive Bell have thought about art, or why the Baroque was condemned a generation ago and is today very much in vogue, is necessary to the student of fine arts...