Word: whit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...methods. The mistakes of rational beings must be attacked with reason, not with dogmatism. The conviction grows that a religious attitude that stubbornly refuses to face the facts of a new social order can hope for few converts in an age of scientific progress. The present generation is no whit less interested in religion than the age of Calvin, but it cannot countenance a religious attitude which fetters freedom of thought and freedom of press...
...which Mr. Code so ruthlessly and so wittily attacks. He may not, therefore, take me to task for combatting him on particular and inconsequential grounds. Perhaps the number may be as dull as he intimates. I daresay it is, but that is beside the point. I care not a whit what Mr. Code thinks of any particular number...
Sympathy for the position of the Lascelles is easily aroused. The British royal family in all of its ramifications is expected to make a show of its existence, to make all its acts functions, in order to satisfy the English public. And satisfying the English is no whit easier than gratifying the whims of any other body, public...
Singles--Ingraham (H) defeated. L.K. Coleman (G), 6-2, 6-1; Kunkel (G) defeated Captain Pfaffmann (H), 2-6, 6-4, 7-5, Wheeler (G) defeated Briggs (H), 6-4, 3-6, 6-4; Cummings (H) defeated Whit beck (G), 7-5, 6-2; Dixon (H) defeated Smith (G), 6-2, 4-6, 6-2; Harrington (H) defeated S. Coleman...
Doubles.--Ingraham and Captain Pfaffmann (H) defeated L. Coleman and Kunkel (G), 6-4, 6-3; Cummings and Harrington (H) defeated S. Coleman and Smith, (G), 6-3, 6-0; Wheeler and Whit beck (G) defeated Briggs and Dixon...