Word: tools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George David Birkhoff: First in our land among masters of mathematics, that great tool of science, greater still in the realm of pure imagination...
...largest audience of Baptists ever assembled," his listeners tuning in at their churches. Of the future of preaching he said last week: "We little, unimportant preachers may retire from the field with disgruntled resentment, or we may be a part of a joyous acceptance of this new tool which science has placed in our hands for the winning of the world...
...Clausen did not tell the Northern Baptists about the "new tool" but he explained later to newsmen that he meant television-possible in ten years. Then, he thinks, half a dozen preachers will serve the whole world. Churches will so time their services that they can tune in on studio sermons. This will not throw little, unimportant preachers out of jobs. They will become executives, helping their parishioners to understand and live by the televised messages...
...Secretary of State and his advisers as studying only one special group of problems without paying any attention to coordination. The Securities Control bill, for instance, follows the natural reaction to hunt for somebody responsible for the depression, according to the Dean. "Instead of allowing control to be the tool in the hands of the blackmailer, we should attempt a reasonable publicity bill...
Sitting in his cell, fasting is Gandhi's only tool but it is potent. Last September a six-day fast nearly killed him but forced a settlement between the caste Hindus and the Untouchables, which was accepted in principle by the British Government (TIME, Oct. 3). In December a 36-hour fast got another prisoner, a high-caste Brahmin, the right to do Untouchables' work as penance. For his new fast, he asked for the world's prayers, commanded that he be let alone in his cell...