Word: creationism
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...effect upon the administration of justice. Thus we find the presentation of a trial in the light of a theatrical performance rather than a dispassionate inquiry into the merits of the case. This is bound to lessen respect for the law and its instrumentalities. Akin to this is the creation of an erroneous conception of the true working of the judicial machinery. Frequently, there results the formulation of a public opinion upon a matter to be judged by the jury alone- And, of course, there is the catering to the public appetite for scandal, with the consequent detriment...
...Hines of Manhattan accepted from the League the directorship of the Commission for Investigation into the conditions of the Danube* and the Rhine.† The Commission is to report on the means of relieving the stagnation of river trade which has been caused by difficulties arising from the creation of new frontiers along the Danube's banks. Major Brehan B. Somervell, U. S. A., was granted five months' leave of absence to accompany Mr. Hines as his principal engineering advisor...
...Hanging of Kruscome Shanks" by Walter D. Edmonds Jr., comes much nearer to being a short story. In detail the story commands prose style, but in general effect it compromises between the study of a social group that is the proper field of one sort of novel, and the creation of the mood that is lyric. The centralization of poetry is substituted for the very different centralization of prose narrative. This peculiarity, though is curious rather than important, for the mood created is impressive and the means used are well controlled. "Ten Years and a Minute" is still more frankly...
...Collier, who has gained fame through his creation of "Otto Grow" and his numerous family, will discuss cartoons in general, "Otto" in particular and give an exhibition of his skill in drawing...
...creation of a body of international law," the reduction of international relations to "established rules of conduct...