Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...different had been his lot, he exclaimed. A gipsy boy, he never went to school and never had books to read and learn from. He had no chance, and yet it was not his fault but his misfortune. The change in his life came when he found God. "I am as sure that I found God as I am that I shake hands with you, that the sun is shining; just as certain as a scientist who works out his positive laws...
...unity. The objection that editorials are too wordy may be founded on actual fact, but they are, in most cases, at least an attempt to crystallize the general consensus of opinion; they try to be rather the expression of the student body than of the writer. Whether they are read or not, they are a criterion of student opinion that is accepted by the world at large. If a multiplicity of individual ideas is to be substituted for the digest offered by the editor, the force of the single expression will be lost...
...great Evangelists of the world, Gipsy Smith was born in England 66 years ago. He began preaching immediately after his conversion in 1876, although he could neither read nor write; and it was then that he began his practice, which he has followed to the present day, of singing hymns to his audience when his vocabulary failed. When the Great War broke out, he tried to enlist, but his age disqualified him. He served as a minister, however, with the British Y. M. C. A. in 1916, 1917, and 1918, and for his work on the battlefields, he received...
...Yale boys got real taste, though. They like if, the best poem. If, Kipling, you know. They can read, too. They voted for the Post. No, the Saturday Evening. I read that thing too. The guy's crazy. I said he's crazy. Like every Harvard man calling every one a guy. He must've stayed at the Liberal Club. No, I never. The cook's Russian. Liable to go nuts and blow the place up. They do that in Russia...
Certain Buddhist doctrines read curiously like pages from modern scientific treatises. The Buddhist Sutra anticipates the theory of evolution in such statements as "all life emerges from a certain concentration of matter in the form of a nucleus" (i.e., cell). Professor Einstein holds that perception is generally false because relative. Buddhists likewise deny truth to all appearances...