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...long men thought the earth was flat. In the latter part of the 15th Century, the idea began to get about that the earth was a sphere...
...early as 1696, it was shown that the earth is not a true sphere. Various calculations have since been made of the earth's shape and dimensions...
...fighting along with no help from the Music Department and selecting its conductors from its own ranks. Its programmes, its aims and its excellence are decidedly not those of a symphony orchestra and there is no reason why they should be. The Pierian has its own sphere and within it is not only pleasing but decidedly capable. Adrien Cambet...
...American democracy has lost its vision. In its crass materialism it has forgotten the great broad theories and ideals of government upon which it was founded. A little sound reflective thought is needed, a restatement of creeds and goals. A sound conception of the nature and sphere of government would prevent, for example, the motion picture censorship undertaken by the municipal Worcester Board of Review which is now to use Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and members of the Worcester Boys' and Girls' Club as judges. Even the Boston American sees the absurdity of this movement, and gently pokes...
...people whom it would affect, but by the proprietors of drug and department stores. Their action is natural enough, but there is no reason for the apathy of the general public; it hasn't even enough interest in a bill which so clearly involves the whole theory of the sphere of government action to laugh the perpetrators of the absurdity to shame. It is allowed to take its place with the Kentucky anti-evolutionary teaching law the Kansas anti-cigarette bill, and the Zion City bye-laws as an expression of American democracy. The puerile "clean book" bills...