Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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True, all is not tranquil within Republican ranks. Hoover, although the popular choice, and backed by skillful politicians, is essentially a party man. Lowden's willingness not to interfere in favorite son movements indicates an attempt to draw votes from Hoover by these local choices, votes that may later be given to Dawes or Lowden. Young Mr. Roosevelt with his attacks on Smith is doing much to damage Republican prestige. Disrupting are Borah's attempts to force a plank on Prohibition. But on the whole, the Republicans' present prosperous administration gives them an inestimable advantage. And with the parties representing...
...parents who keep their son out of college a year after he is prepared are often moved by a belief that he would otherwise be at a social and athletic disadvantage, and this is so far true that if such things were the main object of college the motive would be serious. A student younger than his classmates is usually somewhat less prominent in these matters; but by no means always. Some years ago a father sought advice about sending his son, to Harvard College at 17. He was advised to do so, but warned of the social disadvantage. Wisely...
...midst of a revolution, social, political, and industrial, was the picture of his native country as described by Dhan Gopal Mukerji to a CRIMSON reporter last night. Mukerji is the author of several books depicting Indian life and philosophy, outstanding of which are "Caste and Outcast" and "A Son of Mother India Answers...
...face that was filled that day with exaltation has now become more sorrowful, more wise. For three years, through sandy eastern countries, he moves in a golden path of quiet and beautiful happenings. The people who live in small villages have heard about a man who is the son of God; lepers, in fields and ditches, stare at ragged hands that have been made smooth. There are three more scenes at the end of the three years; one in a great crowded room, one in a garden in which the flowers are drawing together, one on a hill outside...
...Luke?obviously derive in part from the same sources, in part from each other. The history written by John is a different story, leaving out much fact that is in the others, adding much theology that they lack. There are other recountals of the life of God's son; they have, all taken together, enough contradictions to make their corroborations doubtful. The purpose of the biographies of Christ that have been written in modern times are varied, but most are preoccupied with presenting a point of view, a belief, a doctrine. Author Case has a different motive...