Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...affirmative predicated that the next war will finish civilization, and that if pacifism takes root in the United States, it will spread all over the world. "There is a bigger thing now than national patriotism", said one of the speakers from the floor. "The time is ripe for starting a movement for pacifism, and the best place to begin is at home and at Harvard...
...such letters were received yesterday at the Lampoon Building from enthusiasts who had heard the program. One in particular was from a young girl who had pleaded with her father for six months with the result that a radio was finally installed in her home on Friday. The first thing her father heard on the set was the Lampoon concert and the writer of the letter seemed heart broken over the fact that her father had impulsively thrown the whole radio out of the window...
...Fundamentalist believes there is only one truth, that there never was or never will be any other truth but the Bible. We believe there is a growing evolving truth, and that there is no such thing as static truth. There is however such thing as developing through human experience, and the evolutionary hypothesis seems to be a very natural explanation of that...
...convenient-for the public size of from twenty to forty thousand words. Scientific writers, he notes, are equally reluctant to go to the trouble of condensing and reducing their material to this easily readable size. But a scientific book of seventy-five thousand words is rather a ponderous thing for the public. Of course, many perhaps most scientists write for their colleagues; in so doing they must present a great deal of evidence to absolve them from the drendful accusation of superficiality or chariatanry, but after all, the public deserves some consideration. The average adult is genuinely interested in history...
...from that used over the telephone or in the mail. The process of consultation between the leading political men has worked in the League of Nations. If a great experiment like the League had been launched into a tranquil, peaceful world, all would have said it was a great thing. All would have watched it with interest and helped it as much as possible. But instead the League was launched into the most troubled world history has ever known, where hate was dominant...