Word: personent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern era of Materialism most men believe that the individual life ceases with death; to them Immortality is something that exists apart from the single mind. It was the Industrial Revolution which crystallized the middle-class notion that Work is greater than the Soul and caused the forgetting of personal Immortality. The purpose of Work is to improve the world for posterity; the modern way of life is the identification of self with the Work of the world. The unity of work transcends in importance the labor of the individual. Thus in this period the person cannot become eternal; only...
...whose eyes a vile person is contemned: but he honoureth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth...
...deserves a fair and open hearing, which is full and impartial and without any predilection for or against any person or against the TVA itself. The investigating body should be provided with sufficient funds to make possible a first hand examination of the obscure financial records of the power program [administered by Director Lilienthal], and of all other important phases of the TVA which come into question. The fertilizer policy [administered by Director Morgan] . . . was adopted without being disclosed to the TVA Board, and no impartial technical appraisal and report of the fertilizer program ever has been made...
Harriet Monroe was apparently the only person in Chicago who could have made such an attempt. Born there in 1860, she always regarded it as a village. Her father was a well-read, moderately successful lawyer who could not keep track of money, complained about his wife's hats to her milliner, fought constantly and sometimes fiercely with his wife about her extravagance. Overawed and tormented by an older sister, Harriet was educated in a convent in Georgetown, D. C., grew dreamy, introspective and so romantic that her admirers were unable to measure up to her ideal...
Also on the petition is the item: "That the President of the Student Council and a person selected by the Committee for Electoral Reform constitute a committee of two to appoint a temporary chairman of the convention to preside until the convention shall elect a chairman...