Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Liberals believe themselves to be more fundamental than the Fundamentalists, because their religion does not center on smaller matters of scripture like unscientific geography or unproved miracles, but on a Being who was so Divine that men could see God in Him. While the Fundamentalists see their whole scheme of salvation slipping if science and higher criticism of the Bible are accepted, the Liberals see the whole scheme of salvation rendered ridiculous if unscientific (and to them stories nonessential) in the Bible are held to be prerequisite to Christianity. Both sides of the controversy are interested in science, one claiming...
...have been meditating for some time a scheme by which I could hold up the clumsy methods of this academic shilly-shally to open ridicule. At last today, in the middle of the frenzied hour examination period, an idea suggested itself. I saw that one of these silly tests was to be held in the New Lecture Hall at ten o'clock this morning and accordingly, there I appeared shortly after ten armed with several books and a handful of papers. Sitting down in the nearest seat on which lay a bluebook, I took out my papers and began eyeing...
...doubtful whether Monday morning coffee without sugar will prove attractive for more than one week. But, whatever may be the success of Mayor Hylan's scheme, his proclamation is very significant in one respect. It marks an appeal to the consumers rather than to the government. Twenty years ago a writ of injunction, under appeal to a superior court, would have quieted the public. Now the country has lost confidence in the effectiveness of governmental regulation of monopoly and is looking rather to the action of the consumer who controls the factor of Demand. It is futile to speculate...
...scheme is in the air for bringing over German students to the University for a stay of a week or so. A similar scheme at Oxford roused a good deal of opposition, but as the Cambridge scheme does not confine itself to Germans, but hopes to embrace students of all other nationalities, there seems little reason to fear any violent antagonism...
...plants in rural towns so that farmers may throw together a Ford in their spare time during the winter. As a presidential candidate, he would profit immensely by a mailing list of twenty million--even if all of them were debtors; but two things appear to block this ambitious scheme: the saturation point, and Citizen Citroen...