Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current justifications for denominationalism become thin when missionaries in foreign fields endeavor to translate them into heathen tongues. In Chinese, for example, the Methodist Episcopal Mission becomes, literally, "the doubly beautiful society," because there are two m's in M. E. M., and the Chinese pronounces m as "may," and "may" means "beautiful." The Wesleyan Methodists are the "following the Doctrine society," the Lutherans the "doing the Doctrine society," the Limited Methodists the "be with me society," the Congregationalists the "common sense society...
...triumphs of mind over matter have become victories of the machine over man, horribly portrayed in Vanity Fair woodcuts and the magazine supplements of Sunday newspapers. And the ever increasing momentum of scientific progress has startled philosophers out of pleasant and meaningless speculation into the discovery that even the thin air out of which they ordinarily manufacture their syllogisms has more diverse and practical uses...
...readers to decide whether it shall continue to publish or not. Within a month The Freeman has gone on the rocks and ceased publication (TiME, Feb. 4), The Independent went into bankruptcy (TiME, Feb. 11) and was sold. Now the Interpreter which, according to its profession, "only reaches a thin red line of thinkers scattered throughout the world" appeals for funds to carry on its work. Its editors sigh that "public response . . . has not been all that they had hoped. Appreciation seems ever to be a laggard It claims a circulation of over 10,000, but it confesses...
Such are the fortunes of publishing. George Horace Lorimer celebrated his silver anniversary with a weekly which has made Cyrus H. K. Curtis several fortunes in cash. At the same time the Interpreter clutched at the thin red line of thinkers. To one the American public is a gold mine of appreciation; to the other it is a laggard...
...shell was towed back to Newell boathouse while the other two crews continued their workout. The hole was found to be only about an inch in diameter,--not involving serious damage to the thin hull. Shells were used yesterday for the first time, because the river appeared to be clear of ice, and shells, not barges, were available at Newell boathouse. Barges were used Wednesday...