Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intense desire of the two American virtuosi in virulence, Messrs, Mencken and Nathan, to till against every windmill on the plain has led them to attack one of the most respected of modern pedagogical theories. The review of D. W. Fisher's new book, "Teaching the Young to Think", too neatly annihilates the fallacy of teaching how to think, without teaching what to think...
Instead of so airy and fragile an educative purpose, about as comprehensible as pure theology, it is plain that the aim of education is not to implant in young intellects any given set of dogmas--even the very interesting dogmas of the dogma-hating Mr. Mencken. Education does not ignore the issues that confront the modern world, but, avoiding the ex cathedra dictation of belief, tries to lead the student to reason for himself, to cull and consider to become a thinking atom in a difficult universe of conflicting purposes...
...Fake. Frederick Lonsdale is known locally for neat and witty social comedy (Spring Cleaning; Aren't We All?); A. H. Woods for bedrooms; and Godfrey Tearle because he is brother, to Conway, famd cinema actor. Together these three have rolled up a murder in a plain wrapper and presented it to the public. When the wrappings were ripped off the opening night, the public gratitude was only soso...
...problems of life. But he comes with the specific recognition that they are unanswerable. He sets truth in a new light by drawing a sharp line between what one knows, and what one is impelled by inclination merely to believe. Adjusting the conflict between science and religion, he makes plain that the central idea of the religion of the future will be the development of cooperative goodwill, "inspiring men to works of beauty, love and duty...
Over a great, rolling plain near Dayton, Ohio, a winged creature appeared, skimming down low through the dusk. As it alighted, another skimmer stole swiftly by-then another and another. The next day and the third day, more winged creatures came, swarming down into the field from all parts of the horizon or dropping hawklike out of the high heavens. They were not swallows nor blackbirds nor wild grey geese, these creatures, but flying men in all sorts and conditions of craft, migrating to Dayton's fifth international air meet.* By the opening day the swarm numbered about...