Word: save
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...power as nothing but illusions, and left his father's palace in order to become a wandering ascetic. After many years of reclusion and concentrated thinking he began teaching his system of salvation which would deliver all living beings from sin and suffering. He taught that men should save themselves by meditation and by the practice of a high code of morality, and that they should not rely upon any divinities. He condemned the worship of idols as severely as the offering of sacrifices, but after his death those practices crept into the order he himself founded. Present day Buddhists...
...Gras guests abroad. Casey Jones saw a crash coming with the rear-end of a freight train near Vaughns, Mississippi. He did all he could to prevent it, pulled on the air-brakes, threw his engine into reverse. Then he yelled to the fireman: "jump if you want to save your neck." But Casey Jones, no jumper, stayed with his locomotive and died instantly in the crash...
...customs and Prohibition laws are probably the ones most commonly broken by the general run of U.S. citizens. . . . Is a private citizen corrupt, who, by bribery or otherwise, tries to make or save money by breaking or evading...
...indeed is the state of musical affairs when so feeble a composition as Kurt Atterberg's wins the $10,000 Symphonic prize of the Schubert Centennial Contest (TIME, Dec. 3). So did critics mourn in Manhattan last week and in many a major city in Europe-all save Ernest Newman of the London Sunday Times who refused even to take it seriously, marked great slices in it as belonging to Dvorak, Berlioz, Stravinsky, to Schubert himself, and laughed...
...bear about with us the secret shame of a magna or a summa are filled with sorrow that we should give offense. The anonymous gentleman refers to the weakness of our society. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. Perhaps the gentleman would strengthen the society and save his evident shame by removing that weakest link. Such a step would be conclusive to his content as well as to ours that I respectfully offer the suggestion of his mature and secret consideration. Alston H. Chase '27 Instructor and Tutor in Greek and Latin