Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which threatened to succeed prohibition as a national catastrophe, the reformers have met definitely with misfortune. Whereas five years ago there were six states which prohibited absolutely the sale of cigarettes within their boundaries, there are now only two. In the others, the drastic laws have been repealed. Another sphere of operations shows better results. Seven states and a number of cities have established censorship for motion pictures. But even here, their future is not too bright. A referendum showed Massachusetts squarely against such censorship, and fourteen other States have voted against it in their legislatures...
...conclusion: " The man who attempts to do sensational things entirely out of his sphere and beyond his power will, in time, wear down the public's confidence in his judgment. Henry Ford is not so widely admired as he once was. Grant that a man is sincere in trying to do what he is not fitted to do, that will not prevent men mingling pity with their admiration. And pity, when too frequently aroused, is in danger of turning into a mild contempt...
...fall from the pearly gates to the isle of Lemnos; but so far the direction is indeterminate. Perhaps Dr. Bautz, encouraged by the Homeric corroboration of his scientific computations, will enlist the aid of Einstein and F. Scott Fitzgerald to find on just which side of Paradise this infested sphere is whirling...
...proportion as the imagination is stimulated by other means, the novel ceases to have its former sphere of action. The situation may be classed as economic. It is a question of action and interaction. In proportion as one medium supplies a need, another medium is taxed less stringently. At the same time, there will always be a place for the novel in literature and life, so long as life is lived by story-loving human beings, and literature is produced by them. Signs are, indeed, not lacking that as the motor car, the airplane, the motion picture, cease...
...billion genus homos who inhabit our twirling sphere can now breathe a sing of relief; at the Physical Colloquium, held in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory yesterday afternoon, Dr. W. R. Aston, professor at Trinity College, Cambridge, reaffirmed his statement that the sun will shine for some billion years more instead of only a paltry few million as formerly predicted...