Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foreign charities suffer from the fact that a man is affected more through his senses than his imagination. Dives never saw Lazarus. Nor did he, clothed in purple and fine linen, have the imagination to conceive of the pain of nakedness and sores. The undergraduate buttoning his overcoat as he hurries to a ten o'clock, may buy a pencil from the old woman crouching on the corner, but the rush of his daily activities blinds him to the starving students of distant Europe who subsist solely on bowls of soup and a tremendous inspiration to learn. Could those poor...
...services. They met Senator "Jim" Watson at the door of the church and he sat with them. The only guests at luncheon and at dinner in the evening were Mr. and Mrs. Stearns. After dinner the Coolidges spent three hours with disabled veterans at Walter Reed Hospital and saw the first exhibition of Abraham Lincoln, an historical motion picture...
...epitaph of the late Year 1923 must be written that it saw less than half as many lynchings in the U. S. as its predecessor, 1922. There were 61 lynchings in 1922; only 26 last year...
Shaw then saw fit to explain significances. He composed a ponderous epilogue bringing the characters together in a dream which drifted down the centuries. They settled the merits of martyrdom and all but settled the play. Possibly Shaw preferred to have his audience leave the theatre with wrinkled brow rather than glistening eye. Possibly he deliberately stepped on his climax because he is Shaw and defies the rules...
America's scientific elite, gathered at Cincinnati for the 75th anniversary meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, heard and saw fresh miracles of the heavens and earth and the creatures that inhabit them...