Word: retains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...powerful electromagnet Professor Ernest Orlando Lawrence of Berkeley can in ten hours' operating time instill as much radiant energy into a speck of common table salt as $2,500 worth of natural radium contains. The chief difference is that whereas natural radium, a deadly poison, will retain its radioactivity for thousands of years, radioactive table salt will lose all its potency within a few hours. During the period of its radioactivity, however, such table salt may do as much medical good as natural radium, and probably without harmful effects...
...there is a grievous fallacy in the charge that the removal of prejudices entails loss of ideals; and if, from the welter of advice the unfortunate Freshman must hearken to in his first few weeks, he can remember one small but significant idea, and retain it throughout his college career, he will have done well. No amount of teaching, no imposing array of facts, should lead a man to alter his fundamental outlook on life until he is convinced that his new view will serve him every bit as faithfully as the old. The fact that in the light...
Harvard has been much less concerned with the soul than with the intellect since the year it discarded as its primary function the training of men for the ministry. That was long ago, but one still hears the complaint that we have found it impossible to retain lessons learned at home by example, when other lessons are taught more convincingly by logic. Logic is a fickle mistress, and must be kept in her place. There will always be realms where scepticism is baffled, where science confesses to bewilderment, and in these realms lessons other than those learned in books...
Conferences. The three churches would keep their separate annual conferences, would join together in a new general conference. Incumbent Northern and Southern bishops would retain their posts. The Methodist Protestants would accept two bishoprics, thus signifying that they no longer object to the Episcopacy as they did in 1828. Set up would be six jurisdictional conferences which would elect their own bishops. Purely geographical, five of the conferences would be called the Northeast, Southeast, North Central, South Central, Western. The sixth would innocently be called Central, would embrace 300,000 Negro Methodists, regardless of geography...
...what President Roosevelt said when he heard last week that Congress had finally polished off and approved the Social Security Bill. Only one major change had been made in the measure in conference: killed was Senator Clark's amendment to permit companies with private pension systems to retain them instead of contributing to the Government's system. A fight over the deletion was averted by a gentlemen's agreement that the subject of private pensions would be studied with a view to amending the bill later...