Word: working
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a high degree of satisfaction that I, with many another Stanfordite, read of Secretary-President Wilbur's work in TIME, Dec. 9. Can one statement in particular, ". . . bring to his job an attitude of mind different from the general run of office holders," be considered as TIME'S apology for calling Secretary Wilbur President Hoover's "prime 'yes' man" (TIME, March...
Because it is a new cosmology interpreting philosophy and science in interreaction it is impossible to debate the truth of the ideas. The very interrelation of scientific discoveries and scientific plan precludes such an argument. It only remains to consider the usefulness of the work...
...glimmer of the movements of mentality traced by Professor White-head from the seventeenth century to the present time, even though be falls to follow much of the reasoning that lies beneath unfamiliar terminology. And although it requires a deep study, despite the fact that the work is for beginners, to to grasp the full meaning, nevertheless the treatment of scientific ideas in scientific terms is more to be commended than a simple outline couched in ordinary language which would inevitably sacrifice the deepness of the reason...
...this short volume Harrison S. Morris weaves around his reminiscences of Walt Whitman a rough outline of the poet's life and a valuation of his work. It is the sort of semi-personal biographical essay that has been written so often before, and which is important, if at all, because of the new first hand information it lends to the study of this lyrist of democracy...
...there is another, a pitiful possibility. Can it be that the Book Squad of the Watch and Ward feel harsh twinges of conscience at being obliged to use "falsehood and deception" in their glorious work? Can it be that the stern motto "The end justifies the means" only hides spirits saddened by the quality of those means? If so, it is time for some kind person to take the blindfold from the eyes of the self-made martyrs, and to instruct them, gently, that no one wants to suffer. Then, with the contentment of those who have done their work...