Word: shallow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...needful to us as social beings as memory is to the individual. . It affords a valuable basis for comparisons between our own civilization and that of past ages, and thus helps us to see the line of development, "the direction in which things are moving". It safeguards us against shallow views of the laws, institutions, beliefs, and customs of our day, which men are often tempted to regard as rooted in the laws of nature or else as senseless and indefensible, by showing us how they arose and became what they are, what human needs and interests they have served...
...that it true in any science and any religion must stand in harmony together. The only warfare is between untrue religion and what the Bible calls "science falsely so called." There is such a thing today, beyond any question. This "science falsely so called" is a shallow and spurious thing. It dogmatists about delusions and builds vast structures of thought on a foundation no more substantial than a tissue of hypotheses, guesses, speculations and assumptions. When half baked scientists, and even preachers who are seeking to convey the impression that they are very "advanced" and who have merely dabbled...
Considering Dante as an artist and creator, Professor Grandaunt showed that the poet possessed the three factors which combine to make art--conception, selection, and expression--in the highest degree and in nice balance, Dante also offers in this "age of shallow self-expressiveness" a salutary example in "giving to us, by his skill and care in selection, as much by what he withholds as by what he tells...
Since those days of the forties many changes have occurred. Swine no longer root up the mud in the Washington streets, and the mud has become shallow enough to make possible the use of trousers instead of rubber boots and knee breeches. The "City of Magnificent Intentions" has at last changed into the "City of Magnificent Distances", and at present is sedate and orderly enough...
...prehistoric Indians of the central Mississippi Valley had forestalled the modern chemist in making and using evaporating pans and precipitating jars which they employed in the manufacture of salt. These utensils were of pottery. The shallow pans were two to four feet in diameter. The precipitating jars were about two feet high and four inches across at the top, tapering to a point; at the bottom. These jars were furnished with covers, to protect the contents. The brine was collected from saline springs, placed in the jars, and allowed to stand until sediment had formed. The clear brine was then...