Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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ALTHOUGH a scientific cosmology in not easily comprehended by the layman interested in the interdependence of the instruments and the methods of science. Professor Whitehead constructs his metaphysical explanation more vividly than might be supposed. "Science and the Modern World," which consists of an amplification of the Lowell Lectures for 1925, is meant for those who are interested in the readjustment of the philosophy that "builds cathedrals before the workmen have moved a stone and destroys them before the elements have worn down their arches...
...scientific end. Ford has transported Edison's old laboratory there, it is also along this line that he has been garnering old machines and tools from every corner of the world. A great deal of his time has been spent, incidentally, in forming a typical New England village right in Dearborn, Michigan. Here, there will be no automobiles allowed; visitors will be transported in carriages; and it will be possible to see typical New England tradesmen at work at all professions...
...appearance of war books in greater numbers on the market, the enthusiastic reception of war plays, all point to an increasing interest in this subject on the part of the public. The first revulsion of feeling which followed the world war rapidly faded, and the victorious nations still maintain their armies and still build their navies. But in all this time there has been an ever increasing undercurrent of feeling. From the Hague Conference down through the League of Nations and the World Court, clearer has come the cry for peace; and the nations of the world, weary and sick...
...leave the "drame a these", and rely purely on their value as good theatre to carry them over. As theatre they go over, but what gave promise of being a problem play that would not soon be outdated by the quick solution of the problem in the world outside the theatre, turns into a rather good melodrama whose prime fault is that its personal basis in the second and third acts seems woefully insignificant after its cosmic one in the first...
...Some of them: New York Evening World, Chicago Daily News, Kansas City Journal-Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Indianapolis News, Minneapolis Morning Tribune, Atlanta Journal, Cincinnati Times-Star, Denver Rocky Mountain News...