Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oliver settled down to sort and examine his large mail. The press echoed with skeptical reflections on the laws of chance and Lodge logic. Many people recall that similar tests held lately by conservative Dr. G. H. Estabrook, onetime Harvard psychologist, had produced no evidence for mental telepathy...
Thus far about 500 men have returned the questionnaire sent out in December and January. Of this number 250 have indicated their desire for one or another sort of assistance. These men have naturally divided themselves into two classes, and members of each group will be assisted in the manner they most desire...
...evening's entertainment, and one which did much to justify his headliner abilities, was his interpretative reading of an incident in the life of little Johnny Skunk or perhaps it was one of the other Little Folks. Miss Del Faust did well in a song and dance role. A sort of desperate finale advertising the feminine B. V. D. comes too late, just too late
Perhaps one of the greatest evils in the mass production which is the modern factory system is the use of man power as machinery, a sort of machinery with eyes and fingers to give so and so many turns to such and such bolts as they pass by in an endless, changeless stream from morning till night; a sort of machinery that gets in the habit of doing its particular bit of work like the dog on the turnspit and requires about as much intellegence. It is this habit in factory work of which Mr. E. D. Smith will speak...
...cannot be questioned that the present world situation makes an appeal to Christian students for the furtherance of the aims of the S. F. F. entirely justified. I feel sure that there are many in Harvard University who will lend their support to this attempt to foster "some sort of intelligent cooperation and understanding" among the students of the world on this basis...