Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grant need not fear that he has gone too far along the path of "modernism" for the University. He will find, probably, that his congregation has gone almost as far. One generation may begin where the preceding generation leaves off. So whether there is to be a debate--which, naturally, would be highly interesting--or whether Dr. Grant comes alone, the University will listen with the keenest attention to whatever plain speaking is forthcoming...
...station until 15 minutes before the disaster, when he signaled that he was drawing up his wireless aerial. Presumably the ship was struck before the completion of the maneuver. With its huge metal structure, a rigid dirigible is like a giant lightning rod furnishing the easiest and most attractive path for any electrical disturbance. Unlike the lightning rod, it cannot lead the charge safely to mother earth...
Instinctively the human mind craves universal laws, formulae, astoundingly simple solutions of complex problems. Onivin Page has a rather eloquent reply to this quest for a smooth path. He turns to Rx (pronounced Rex) for an explanation of the hitherto inexplicable in nature; "Rx, the most wonderful, abundant, and essential kind of matter known to man", and in a rambling treatise for the lay reader not only overthrows all existing theories of the constitution of matter and proves the Bible scientific, but explains Einstein...
...stood by the child's cradle one great and powerful, Fate. . . . Her protecting arm she raised above him. She took him by the hand and ever led him on. . . . She commissioned into the service a good and a great merchant of Boston. . . . She commanded striking policemen to open a path before him. A great Police Commissioner gave wings to his feet. . . . She set him in the seats of the mighty. Even Death rode on before him and cleared...
...away from her husband; and she has not neglected to keep his place continually, if varyingly, filled by a succession of masculine intimacies. Joyce, inexplicably stimulated, returns to fight the world-particularly that part of it comprising the supposed friends who had led her down the steep path to indiscretion...