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Word: whereases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mr. Edsall says: "When reason is applied to Religion, there is naturally discord. It is as if one tried to play a violin with a saw." Now there is considerably more than discord. Such treatment inevitably results in the ruin of the violin: Whereas the saw is quite unharmed.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 12/22/1923 | See Source »

President Coolidge submitted to Congress the Budget Bureau's estimates of receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year of 1925. There are reductions in the expenditures for all parts of the Government except four: the War Department (an increase of only $6,000), the Department of Commerce (an increase of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For a New Year | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

The investments made by insurance companies have always proved an important feature of large-scale financing. During the first ten months of 1923, the insurance companies invested about $660,000,000 in various enterprises, which is about as much as their investments for the entire year of 1922. During the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Record in Life Insurance | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

"Force is the ideal of the West, whereas it is spurned in the East. Here it has been put upon a pedestal and made a God. The West has raised up a monster which has all but destroyed it. The best minds in the East have ever stood against this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAKES PLEA FOR EASTERN IDEA OF TRUE HAPPINESS | 12/14/1923 | See Source »

In the comment printed below, the New York Times expresses its editorial alarm at the extent of drunkenness in Harvard, Princeton, and Yale and in "other seats of learning", since the passage of the Volstead Act. It admits that "precise data" is hard to get; but it argues from indications...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILD BARLEYCORNS | 11/27/1923 | See Source »

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