Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Armillary Sphere is a great sundial cast in the design of that ancient astrological instrument, the armillary. Man and woman repose at its base; the goat, the lion, the bear, the ram, pursue each other in its wheels, while the armillary seems to spin, with slow laughter, through interstellar space...
...ultimate success because it is apparent that at Harvard the problem has been solved by just such measures as they have proposed. In the University there is now a shared "division of functions". The College and the Business School can be and are becoming supreme each in its own sphere...
...originator of so thorough, if unofficial, a persecution of economic dissenters will not be too sympathetic to any ideas which might be accused of unorthodoxy. His constant care will be to purge Reed College of its liberal fevers. From hence-forth, Reed College must play, in the educational sphere, a respectable if uninspired and totally mediocre role...
...Interallied debts represent an exchange of resources, and register the movements which took from one country to another the funds which each in its sphere could supply. If we abandon the juridical plane and look oil the matter from the higher view of cooperation and fairness, strict justice would seem to demand a general pooling of War expenditures and their allotment among the allied States proportionately to the riches of each one, and without taking count of the particular engagements which the necessities of the moment imposed. Thus only would be realized an equality among all in the total...
...same tendency echoed in the academic sphere. I was struck by the excellence, the vigor and the competence with which affairs relating to the world of action are handled. I found that everyone could use a typewriter and drive an automobile. I found that drives for money were made on a vast scale and with a success undreamed of in England. I found that the applied sciences, such as medicine and engineering and agriculture, and the vocational studies, such as law. are at their best taught (and learned!) far better than anywhere in England. But when it came to what...