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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student desires to learn how to think, to understand; that is, if he wants an education in the best sense of the word, he may concentrate in geology. Yet he should note also the advisability, of choosing other, fundamental studies. Before entering far into geology he should have had a good introduction to physics, chemistry, and biology; preferably also astronomy. Choice of courses in these allied, fundamental sciences is facilitated by the provision that two of the six courses approved for concentration in geology may be taken in allied departments. Within the Division of Geology the four required courses...
Otto Hermann Kahn, Manhattan financier-art-patron: "Word came-from London that I had chartered the Duke of Westminster's yacht, Flying Cloud, a sailing ship with auxiliary engines, for a cruise from Sicily in April, to Athens, the Greek islands and Venice, with guests: Novelists (Enoch) Arnold Bennett and David Gray, Editor Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair and Artist Paul Dougherty...
...goes on: I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment. . . . Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou? Angrily, readers asked themselves: Do Uldine's declarations of literate faith in Biblical commandments let her forget the Magna Charta and the Rights of Man as expressed in the U. S. Constitution...
...Doubt surrounds the authorship of the book ECCLESIASTES. Some say King Solomon wrote it. Others attribute it to a Hebrew sage named Koholeth, whose name, coincidentally, means "wisdom." Koholeth at first puts his words into the mouth of Solomon, but later drops this literary device. The Greek word "Ecclesiastes" means "Preacher...
...pronounced guarantee with an unexpected "w" (gwarantee) - it was a new word when Palmerston...