Word: tracings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First of U. S. learned societies, also Franklin-founded, was the Junto (1727). As the Junto was the ancestor of the Useful Knowledge group, each one of the present society's 436 members may proudly and properly trace his philosophical descent from the beginning of U. S. wisdom. Simple indeed were the questions propounded to the Junto's applicants for membership. The first was typical of candor in the City of Brotherly Love: Have you any particular disrespect to any present members? Do you sincerely believe that you love mankind in general? Do you love truth for truth...
...paper which gave rise to the exciting story shows it to be little more than a reformulation of the mutation theory of evolution. It is not Man who is the "special creation" but the whole vertebrate kingdom. Mr. Clark's unorthodoxy, evidently, is merely that he cannot trace any evolutionary relationship between the lowest from of fish and the invertebrate kingdom. And so the whole discussion was caused merely by a zealous newspaper man who saw a headline in a few of Mr. Clark's inaptly chosen phrases...
...Hare is an instructor in the Harvard Medical School and also an associate in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. He has specialized in circulatory work. During the lecture Professor O'Hare will trace the development of the methods of taking blood pressure and explain the various pressure-taking machines which have been invented. Arteriosclerosis and other forms of circulatory disease will be discussed, and Dr. O'Hare will conclude by showing what should be the attitude of intelligent laymen towards the subject of light blood pressure...
Interviewed was chief Rabbi Doctor Sonnenschein. He said that, alas, there were poor Jews, that the home for the aged was overcrowded, that $100,000 would bring sunshine (which is what Doctor Sonnenschein's name means) to many an unhappy soul. Perhaps there was a trace of anti-Semitism in the municipal council? But since the council's word was evidently legally final, it seemed last week that no Jew, rich or poor, would enjoy part...
Popular Nicholas. A trace of resentment was shown by the Grand Duke Alexander in speaking of his cousin the Grand Duke Nicholas: "Always he was very popular with the Army! That is the only reason why anybody thinks he should be Tsar. He is too old! He is exactly 72. I saw it in the New York Times, this morning, where they say he is very sick on the Riviera. Such an old man could not have the strength to lead such a cause...