Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deprive a native Solomon Islander of vitamins and proteins demanded by nature and he will eat his neighbor. Give him natural food and he will become ashamed of his former flesh eating. Cannibalism was originally due to lack of meat in the islands. Then it became surrounded by ceremonials. Weaker tribes who had been driven from lowlands and available animal life by stronger tribes took to cannibalism for the sake of a balanced diet, including fats and oils. I believe that the South Sea Islands had no indigenous animal life, except possibly the pig, and it was probably brought...
Possibly, the reason why the second act seemed so much weaker is because all the high sports came in the first act. At any rate, it never gave one same interest. With the exception...
...negro, then, probably involves either migration or subserviency. Nevertheless, the conquering whites need not degenerate into brutes; common justice at least should be granted to the weaker. The existing fiction of equality before the law must become a fact, if the negro and white are to live peaceably together in the semblance of a civilized community...
Bryan might win in Tennessee but Fundamentalism grew progressively weaker and weaker, after the great "Monkey Trial." Presbyterian Fundamentalists tried in vain to halt a move to liberalize their Church's oldest, richest and most conservative theological seminary, at Princeton. Thereupon they abandoned Princeton, founded a seminary of their own which they called Westminster, after the great Confession of their faith. When the smoke of theological battle lifted and public interest had shifted to other quarters, there emerged a new Fundamentalist leader. Plump-cheeked Dr. John Gresham Machen, born 52 years ago in Baltimore, was not another Bryan...
...could have all his meals there. Fraternity treasuries felt the pinch as members dropped away from dining rooms, their chief sources of income. Mortgage payments came hard, and so did the fat sums which every local chapter pays into its national headquarters. Fraternity ties, never overly strong, grew weaker as Yalemen found friends among their college-mates...