Word: statement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME is mistaken in this statement. The International Match Co., we believe, controls no match production in the U. S. It may or may not control the production (in foreign countries) of about 75% of the foreign matches imported into...
...definite statement of the work of the commission has been made, as the study of the problem has just recently been begun. "We will study the art of examining in English," said Professor Thomas yesterday. "The results, for the most part, have proved satisfactory, but the College Entrance Examination Board has finally decided to subject the policy of the preceding years to a strict and impartial scrutiny...
...characterization of the Harvard Law School as an internationally acknowledged school of its type has suffered from such constant repetition as to make the statement almost platitudinous. Yet there has hardly ever been a more remarkable expression of its universality than is contained in the terms of the Pugsley gift of $400,000 which was announced yesterday...
Next morning M. Briand said that the Havas Agency had misunderstood him, added that of course his telephone would have been answered if it had rung. In a bristling statement from which it appeared that somebody was lying, he declared: "To my surprise I learned in the evening that Daladier had decided to give up, and intended giving as an excuse that I had abandoned him. I immediately sent word that I was ready to collaborate. He gave up anyway, and I am beginning to ask myself whether what he hoped for from me was not collaboration, but refusal...
...mechanistic] theory is . . . bankrupt. It has, in fact, ceased to interest physiologists in recent times. . . . One often meets the statement . . . that scientific physiology is progressively revealing the mechanism of life. In the light of actual progress this is quite untrue, and can only be described as claptrap. . . . Science brings us to a point at which we require more than Science." Biologist Haldane takes philosophy seriously. To him, philosophy is only another word for religion. But orthodox religion will not find much in common with such statements as this: "Belief of any kind in what is supernatural seems...