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Tira's manners in this scene are congruous with her past. A honky-tonk dancer whose behavior at all times suggests that she is on her way to bed, she has improved her station in life by performing in a wild animal act and putting her head in a lion's mouth. As an important circus celebrity she continues to make advances to most of the men she meets. When young Kirk (Kent Taylor) kisses the inside of her hand, she rolls her eyes and growls: "You got me!" After ejecting Kirk's fiancee, Tira receives another...
...financially one must compare his lot with that of other members of the social community." The professor accordingly stacks himself up against his $25,000 a year classmate in business and considers himself poor. "The two are not to be compared, however, and efforts to make them financially congruous are entirely misdirected," says the writer. From a money standpoint the teacher is poor, but what of it? "He enters the profession with his eyes open...
...which is merely a reduplication in ideas of what exists already in the world may afford us the satisfaction of a photograph, but that is all." The vital office of philosophy today, says philosopher-educating Dewey, is "to search out . . . the obstructions" in life; to focus reflection upon needs congruous to present life; to interpret the conclusions of science with respect to their consequences for our beliefs about purposes and values in all phases of life...
Upon the instruments of War last week President Hoover bent a mind primed for Peace. Logic and economy were his inspirations: logic, to make U. S. national defense congruous with the General Treaty for the Renunciation of War; economy, to make a tax cut possible...
...Virgin birth and a belief in the incarnation. . . . The fact of the virginal conception of Christ was no sooner heard than it was welcomed by the Church and taken up into its creed. It has seemed to all successive generations that the belief in the incarnation was so congruous with belief in the Virgin birth that the former could hardly have taken place in any other manner. It has also seemed that the birth of the New Man must have involved something discontinuous as well as something continuous with the old sinful humanity. . . . In fact, men have not in fact...