Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...animal known as Homo sapiens a human being it is now not customary--nor fashionable for a man of letter or an artist, to seek out the essentially human standard by means of his imagination, and then create in accordance with it. Standards are old-fashioned "The Golden Rule is that there is no Golden Rule," says Bernard Shaw, and the mass of Europe and America applauds, and poetizes and paints and composes, not with the aim of laying hold upon the essentially human elements, but rather with the purpose of exhibiting each one his own little individualities...
...Story. Offspring of a Mogul prince, Temugin is born clutching in his royal fistlet a clot of congealed blood. Astrologers and soothsayers thereupon agree that by the blood of his enemies the child is destined to bring many peoples under his rule...
Meanwhile he takes Princess Purta Coujeen as first wife, to bear him heirs, and to rule over his women, already numerous. Flaunted at the lavish wedding festivities are jewels, brocades, gold-chased armor, games, races, wines, meats. Only the beautiful princess holds herself aloof, unmoved, even when her bridegroom accepts two charming virgins as a wedding present. Though she refuses to put herself out to please her new master, she proves an able mistress of his women's quarters. Her favorite punishment is to overturn a large jar of beans in a culprit's presence and then require...
Surendria Datta, of the National Christian Council of India, asserted that Christianity and the entire Anglo-Saxon system is now an integral part of his country, and would remain there even if British rule were removed...
...between the field that is not wholly superficial. The kinship between Physics and Chemistry is likewise great enough so that the influence of the sister science will probably be thrown into the scales. Dangerous in the extreme would be any application of the principle of unity as an educational rule of thumb; nevertheless the acceptance of the tutorial system by one of the two sciences that had been unincluded within it makes the hot light of attention focus the more directly on the lone remaining field of concentration...