Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philological" or some such tract...
Although its editors call the U. S. Rising Tide a magazine, its nature is more that of an illustrated religious tract. In 48 fast moving pages of striking photos and photomontages, it shows the reader a world where "human wisdom has failed . . . but God has a plan." Page after page of pictures, exhibiting exuberant Oxford Group grins, illustrate how "one man" (Dr. Buchman) brought God's plan to Oxford in 1921, how his disciples spread it in Canada, the Scandinavian nations, Switzerland, The Netherlands...
...lungs but the bowels breathe. Dr. Dillon, a U. S. emigre practicing in Moscow, explained: "Air which has found access into the stomach and then into the intestines can be sucked into the blood. Especially it is true about oxygen which can dissolve in any liquid of the digestive tract. There is no impediment of anatomic character to such absorption of oxygen through the walls of the digestive tract, for the digestive tract embryologically comes from the same source as the respiratory tract. Comparative physiology presents indisputable proofs of a respiratory function of the digestive tract of some vertebrae. There...
Commonwealth College, founded in 1923 as a heterodox academy where left-wingers of all shades might work and study, was oddly built, and oddly remains, on a 320-acre tract near Mena in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. A cluster of frame houses, halls and barns in which all the manual labor is done by faculty and students, the College is detested by many of the local citizenry who got the Arkansas Legislature to investigate "free love" and ''nudism" at Commonwealth, and last winter Rev. Luther D. Summers, a Baptist of Mena, led a crusade to make...
...before Mr. Sloan released his tract, another report from another freshman in modern labor relations-U. S. Steel Corp. -published June quarter earnings. Without strife or struggle Big Steel came to terms with John L. Lewis late last winter, and if it had any complaints on the subsequent behavior of the steel union, it kept them strictly to itself. While "Little Steel" was fighting Labor on a dozen bloody fronts, Big Steel piled up the biggest first-half profit in seven years-$64,000,000, quadruple the figure for the same period of 1936. With part of these profits...