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...Biblical scholarship, I venture to place these words before you this afternoon torn from their context and ask you to read them with twentieth century eyes. If you will follow me in this I suggest you will have in hand an epitome of what you have been striving to attain during the last four years--an education...
...midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." If you will be an active participant in the affairs of modern life and pass unruffled through an unruly crowd, you must fight hard indeed for his "independence of solitude." To attain it is denied, perhaps, to most of us but to approximate it at least is possible for all--possible by a continual struggle in which a formal education is but the opening round. There is no retreat to a pastoral life for most of us, physical solitude is impossible, an unlettered independence of mind almost inconceivable...
...from the earth, the rocket offers him freedom from the air. From the standpoint of science, the rocket offers the only known possibility of sending instruments to altitudes above those reached by sounding balloons. . . . From the standpoint of commerce, we must look to the rocket if we hope to attain speeds of transport above a few hundred miles an hour. . . . From the standpoint of war, we must consider the fact that rockets may carry explosives faster than the airplane and farther than the projectile...
...other axes to grind. With Hapgood and Lovett leading today's discussion, an undue emphasis is bound to be placed upon the problems that confront labor, which will distort the supposed objective of the peace strike and diminish the singleness of purpose that such a strike should strive to attain...
...York Produce Exchange began trading in frozen eggs two years ago, but in this product as in shell eggs New York remains primarily a spot market. *Not burying but drying or sealing in alkaline paste. The latter method, by which old eggs attain a rare delicacy (for the Chinese) comparable to that of old brandy (for Westerners), has never found favor...