Word: everyday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intellectual attainments of the yogis consist in is rather indefinite; but the emotions of saints nothing could be more helpful in the solution of modern world problems! And if the physical control of Hindu ascetics has no immediate application to politics it would at least be unusually valuable in everyday life with food prices mounting indefinitely and rents "perfectly frightful, you know!" in fact, if Mr. Gurdjieff can manage to corral all of the Germans, most of the Russians and a fair share of the English, French and even Americans, into his academy not of course, Insinuating that he would...
Although it is possible to control the weight of the body by diet and exercise, it is an everyday observation that some persons grow fat while eating relatively small amounts of food and apparently without relation to the amount of exercise they take. Others remain slender while consuming large quantities of candy, cream, milk, butter. Scientists are convinced that the body build is controlled to a considerable extent by heredity and other factors, such as some governing influence in the cells...
...grasp the true immensity of the universe, the study of its composition nevertheless develops some appreciation of the insignificance of the earth and its puny inhabitants. It should produce a feeling of serenity and poise quite unlike anything to be gained from familiarity with the intimate details of everyday existence; one might suppose all astronomers were large-souled and venerable; preferably with long white beards...
...Mifflin Company, the forgery of autobiography is not so common a pursuit for the indigent and unscrupulous intelligensia as it was forty years ago. In those days such incidents as the following were not uncommon. "A workingman came into my shop with a book under his arm:--Hone's Everyday Book, 1839, with a good many MS. marginal notes signed or initialled "Charles Lamb." He said...
...most use to us today. Sometimes one feels that we are hearing a little too learned a disquisition of the Republic of Plato, or of Aristotle's more abstract theories, but such moments are well balanced by detailed and very interesting descriptions of the practical, lived philosophy of the everyday Greek. And much of this is material that the average course of instruction, for instance, does not bother to tell us. Thus a whole section is devoted to their national poverty. It is new, too, to learn of the barrenness of their soil, and its direct results upon the tillers...