Word: creationism
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Convention. A message from President Coolidge opened the Legion's business sessions in the Trocadero Palace. Then came the year's resolutions, chief among them one urging the creation of a separate U. S. department of aeronautics, headed by a Cabinet member, "as soon as warranted." Up jumped Francis Edward McGovern, onetime (1911-15) Governor of Wisconsin, to denounce "as soon as warranted" for a mouthful of "weasel words." Up likewise jumped William Mitchell, stormy onetime assistant chief of the U. S. Army Air Service. Given the platform, he shouted; "The next war will be fought by getting...
...personal method, which ranks the first trans-atlantic passage on a popular par with the first successful attempt to stand an egg on end. And so it may be that unborn generations of Harvard Presidents will mention in the same breath the development of the tutorial system with the creation of a standard and unmistakable set of Harvard crockery. Both will be remembered as unique differing not so much in kind as in degree...
Soon came a neophyte in modernism, saw the creation, glowed, murmured, "What a thought?sublime...
...Bolton, noted psychologist of Temple University (Philadelphia). "The male figure is decidedly more decorative than the female figure," he continued, "thus proving that the male is a better biological specimen than the female. Throughout all the ages the form of the man has been more frequently used for the creation of things of beauty than the female figure...
Thieves, beggars, lunatics, gutter-rats, detesting a deity whose magnificence had seemed an insult added to the injury of their creation, were not averse to a more probable image of their maker. Thus the mad leper sat in Koili-kuntla while thugs prowled about the streets to procure him food and apparel. After two of these thugs robbed and battered a citizen, the police arrested them. Then, kindled with the desire to assert his divinity, surrounded by his riff-raff apostles, the mad leper went last week to storm the jail. Bullets, he said, would fall from him as softly...