Word: vs
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...McCollum, who is president of the American Humanist Association, spoke at a meeting sponsored by the Harvard branch of that organization she is the well-known plaintiff in a 1943 Supreme Court case (McCollum vs. Board of Education) in which the Court ruled that classes in religion could not be taught on public school grounds. The decision is important to the first application of a 1947 Court opinion that the First Amendment's guarantee that "Congress shall pass no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" was made applicable to state legislation by the Fourteenth...
...question, at least, is a reasonable one.) Taylor's Prologue consists of a description of the fascinating and wide-ranging correspondence which ex-Presidents Adams and Jefferson carried on for ten years prior to their simultaneous deaths in 1826; the measure and reason which characterized their discussions of North vs. South, hard work vs. gracious living, education vs. natural genius soon disappeared from the discussions of these problems by later Southerners. Their correspondence "seemed, by the summer of 1861, to belong to another, faraway...
Eble writes about the "silent, secret, submerged" art of teaching, where it may best be looked for, and why it is hard to appraise; and about research and the humanities vs. science rivalry. He deplores rightly that an excessive research-mindedness has produced a condition where "foreign languages are taught as mere tools rather than as the vital center of humanistic studies they once were...
...Stocks vs. Bonds To the relief of practically everyone, the stock market settled down to something resembling normality last week-that is, after another Monday break opening in which the Dow-Jones industrial index tumbled 17.37 points...
Among the sports enthusiasts who weathered the chilling air were a "fathers-daughters vs. sons" ball game contingent and a group which managed to talk the tennis pro into letting them use the still damp clay courts. Others either boarded buses for tours of Cape Ann, homes and gardens, the Manchester harbor, or else took a trip to Singing Beach, where there was "no swimming, but a chance to see the beach, walk in your bare tootsies and let the sand squeeze through your toes...