Word: realm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Francis M. Hugo, former Secretary of State of New York, has been chosen to do for non-dramatic films what Will Hays does for the dramatic ones. The realm over which Mr. Hugo will Czar it is that of educational and religious pictures. There are, says Harry Levey, President of the National Non-Theatrical Motion Pictures, Inc., 40,000 moving-picture machines now being operated in churches, schools, clubs, boards of trade, and similar institutions. On the other hand there are only 16,000 moving-picture theatres in the country. New machines are being bought by private institutions...
...professional Egyptologists," he said, "the main significance of the discoveries as so far reported seems to be in the field of the minor arts such as decoration and designing, rather than in the realm of the major arts...
Personally, I was delighted when I read Dr. Steinmetz striking address. He recognizes and admits that science has to do with material facts--their proper examination and classification--with the laws and properties of matter. He recognizes, also, that religion occupies an entirely different realm, namely, faith, and that faith has to do with moral and spiritual reality. Hence, he says "belief must always remain the foundation of religion." Dr. Steinmetz also recognizes the limitations of science, because of the limitations of our science perceptions through which the facts and forces of matter are dealt with. He further recognizes...
...Steinmetz and rejoice that he has so adequately stated the truth. The only fault that I would fine with Dr. Steinmetz' utterance, indeed, is that perhaps he might have gone further still and pointed out the obvious truth that there are other "facts" than those which lie in the realm of the material. Faith, itself, is a fact, even though it can neither be weighed, felt, smelt, tasted, or experienced by any other sense perception. Love is another such fact. Penitence is another such fact. Hope is another such fact...
...times, but which made great contributions to the future in science, in government, and in art--"a great age departed, almost forgotten, but still living in us, influencing what we do, what we think, and what we feel". Moreover, Dante was a "creator of beauty, a leader in the realm of the spirit, an example of human potentiality in thought, in imagination, and in artistry...