Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fifth member of the Committee will be chosen from among W. R. Maclaurin '29, H. H. Proctor '29, and G. A. Weller '29, who tied for sixth place in the balloting. The Committee will elect a chairman after the fifth man has been chosen...
Shakyamuni Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, was an Indian prince who lived in the sixth century B. C. At an early age his meditations led him to the conclusion that a life of renunciation and high thought was preferable to the delights of home and love. He regarded the charm of wealth and 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...
...many instances the missionaries resorted to a compromise; they declared the most beloved native gods as nothing but incarnations of certain accepted members of the Indian Buddhist pantheon. This method was most successfully carried through in Japan where the first Buddhist missionaries arrived in the sixth century A. D. They were confronted by a firmly established native pantheon in that country and succeeded in identifying almost all Japanese gods with their own, imported divinities. As a result of that procedure, Shintoism, the national religion of Japan, was all but absorbed by the new faith, and most Shinto temples were administered...
With authentic enthusiasm Counselor Cahill writes: "France has become the greatest iron ore country in Europe; she has acquired potash concessions far in excess of her consumption; compared with 1923, she has increased her coal output by one-sixth, doubled her coke output and more than trebled her electrical capacity...
Tabulating similarly the "Principal Customers of France," Mr. Cahill shows that Great Britain bought most in 1913 and still does; while the U.S. buys so little from France today as to stand in sixth place. This is but another way of saying that French goods are kept out of the U.S. by a tariff wall, and let into England by the fact that the Empire is not shielded as Lord Melchett would like to see it shielded...