Word: raying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scott of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Director Leo Stanton Rowe of the Pan-American Union. Three other delegates whom President Coolidge had appointed were not present to receive instructions: Dwight W. Morrow (U. S. Ambassador to Mexico), Noble Brandon Judah (U. S. Ambassador to Cuba), President Ray Lyman Wilbur of Stanford University...
Retinue. With President Coolidge were to go Secretaries Kellogg and Wilbur, the former as an added compliment to Latin-America, the latter to rest from an arduous life, to bolster Navy morale and perhaps to see his brother, Delegate Ray Lyman Wilbur. There would not be room for the President and his two Secretaries on the Texas should they elect to sleep there instead of ashore in Havana. Commanding Admiral null was having to move out for his Commander-in-Chief as it was. Besides, the party was to include Mrs. Coolidge, Mrs. Kellogg, Mrs. Wilbur. It seemed likely that...
...Forest Ray Moulton, professor of astronomy at the University of Chicago, added: "This is the doctrine of evolution: that the universe is orderly in time as well as in space. It is naïve and provincial to think of evolution as a term applicable only to changes in living organisms. It applies equally to stars and systems of stars, to the earth, to the creatures living on the earth, to the mind of man. Sometimes these changes will be toward what we regard as perfection; sometimes in the opposite direction, but always orderly. Is there anything in this...
...also be used to illustrate the principle involved. This comment should not be taken as a reflection on all conditional gifts on even on most of them to do so would be not only to look into the mouth of a gift horse, but to insist on an X-ray of the molars. But the swimming-pool gymnasium situation is so typical of the exception that this comment is offered with no stinting of gratitude, but rather as a plea for an earlier availability of a generous gift...
...capable. A smile has changed the whole course of a human life. A smile serves as a guidepost at a turning point for a man who is hesitating at the intersection of two paths. A smile is the sun that dissipates the clouds of despair. It is just the ray of light that many a soul needs to make life seem preferable to death. It is the cheapest and most valuable gift we can make. When smiles can do so much, why are we not more liberal with them...