Word: respect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with each other to form the countless substances of which the universe is constructed. These weights have usually been found to be amazingly constant. Silver from all parts of the world and from many different ores has always the same atomic weight Copper from Europe is identical in this respect with that mined under the bottom of Lake Superior...
...work at the University long since proved that the iron and nickel which fall from the sky in meteorites coming from the spaces for beyond the earth's orbit have exactly the same atomic weights as iron and nickel from the earth a fact cited as indicating in one respect, at least, the unity of the universe...
...receives from the book is of a weakling acting as the tool of his secretary's superior intelligence, an impression far removed, by the way, from that given by Boswell. If we were to take the book at its face value, the effect would be grossly to lessen our respect for the great man. Yet the introduction denies this earnestly; and a knowledge of Mr. Tumulty proves that he intends to do his superior a great service...
...Southern characteristics, honor and courage, are predominant throughout and all the boys are "worthy young fellows". The leader, MacMurray, is the worthiest. In fact his only lack is a sense of humor, and Mr. Paine has the good fetes to poke a little fun at him in this respect. It should send every boy who reads it flocking to Centre for life there as described in the book is completely idylls...
...beyond the honor to this dead fellow-student, we are doing a greater homage--to the thousands of masterminds represented under that roof. Next to the church, a library is the most sacred of public buildings. Not instinct nor formality, but the prempting of spontaneous respect, should make us remove our hats when we enter its precincts...