Word: tracings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooks advances with assurance and easy facility. The evidence which he adduces serves to bolster his case well. The spiritual desert upon which we find ourselves in the beginning was made by Jonathan Edwards. "He was able to spin his inept sublimities by subtracting from his mind every trace of experience, every touch of human nature as it really was among his innocent country folk." He was a rapt and isolated scholar whose wrathful theology found no listener in the market place. On the other hand our great Dr. Franklin with his immense practicality and the common sense of poor...
...finishing touch to their careers. Bertram surprised them by enlisting at the first shot, shocked them by getting gloriously killed. Ethel's naval husband, having first embarrassed, then bored them both with his clandestine affairs, was torpedoed, sunk without trace. Meg conceived a passion for her elderly-married rector, finally did neither of them any good by writing to the Bishop about his imaginary advances. The father, weighed down by carking business cares and a German grandmother, hanged himself. Ethel's sons were left to carry on. Readers will admire Author Scott's ingenuity in projecting...
...fact the presumptive cases include thousands of veterans who can trace their disabilities directly to service origin, and present unimpeachable proof thereof. But variations in post-War employment conditions, loss of records through death of physicians, inability to locate witnesses known 15 years ago, and other normal factors complicate the problem of proof for many men. The regulations adopted under the 1933 Economy Act very virtuously read that the benefit of a reasonable doubt, on such proof as was presented, should go to the veteran; but other clauses so restricted the application of this rule that its interpretation resulted...
...conflict. Dr. Compton has lately been brought to a similarly reverent attitude by the "free will" behavior of electrons and photons. But there are two men who are at home on both the mathematical and experimental fronts and who, on the interpretative front, lift highly articulate voices to trace for interested laymen the whole reach of modern physics and to discuss its philosophical repercussions. They are Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington and Sir James Hopwood Jeans...
...authorities could just stamp out that last trace of marking on the basis of some antiquated grade curve, things would be even better. --The Stanford Daily...