Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edsall says that "the great moral to be drawn from this controversy is: keep distinct things apart. Do not confuse Science and Religion." Now this is just what isn't the moral of this controversy. In the beginning, science and religion were exactly the same thing--an attempt to understand that eternal, transcendent, inexplicable mystery, existence. As this attempt was carried on, it very naturally split up into two methods: some men considered the majesty of the unseen, and made appropriate conjectures as to what it might be; and some men tried to arrive at the same discovery...
...service did not make a universal appeal, but one who knows it fairly well can vouch for the fact that it improves on better acquaintance. Musically, it was given an altogether excellent performance, to us it seemed that the reader's part was much overdone, and the whole thing a bit "stagey...
...rule about foul-shooting is a big thing for basketball," said Coach Wachter of the University team to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. The rule to which he referred provides that the man who is fouled shall make the free throw himself instead of allowing any member of the team to make the attempt...
...moral chastisement is not the only thing to be derived from the page. There is also a lesson in unadulterated charity, which perhaps passes unnoticed. This year is the twelfth year in which the New York Times has carried on its Christmas campaign for the poor. It has devoted editorial space and news space daily to booming this charity drive; it has financed the work of looking up many of the cases, of keeping the books, of distributing the benefits, while in material returns it gains nothing. It has so increased subscriptions that since 1916 it has been able...
...take themselves to countries with decent exchange rates-above all to the golden U. S. Spain and South America get their share of them, too. Thus the best talents in Germany and Austria are not to be heard in their native lands, and in France and Italy the same thing is true-though to a smaller extent. And inferior voices prevail in the opera houses. The opportunity for the moderately good American artist-the one not good enough for the high musical standards that now prevail in the U. S.-is obvious. The native artist cannot live on the prices...