Word: creationism
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...possible for a woman to paint a great picture? This question, a hoary one, was revived last week by a critic in directing attention to the symposium of art reviewers (males); it was answered in the negative. Women, said they, have lost the fine impulse for original creation in the centuries of artistic repression which they have undergone. "Paint they can, but not on canvas," said the critics...
...with an initial membership of 124 editors-in-chief and executive editors. . . . This group . . . adopted a set of 'Canons of Journalism' prepared by Mr. H. J. Wright, at that time Editor of the New York Globe. Excellent! But-without wishing to prejudge the utility of such a body, the creation of which is surely a step in the right direction, it is significant that membership belongs not to the man, but to the job! ... It is ironic and significant that the author of this code is no longer in a position to enforce its practice and that several who took...
...novel laboratory has been created in the Canal Zone. When the Canal was built, Gatun Dam was erected across the valley of the Chagres River. The result was the creation of not only a deep-water channel from the Gatun locks to Gaillard Cut, but also a great lake, some 164 square miles in extent, which developed from the drowning of the lands on both sides of the main channel. This body of water is known as Gatun Lake...
...Instruments at the Berlin High School for Music. The tablet comes from ancient Assur, capital of Assyria, and was inscribed in cuneiform characters about the year 800 B. C. It contains three columns: The first is the mysterious music; the second, in archaic Sumerian, an account of the creation of Man from the blood of the gods; the third, a translation of this into Assyrian...
Finally a "semiofficial statement" of the consolidation plan was given to an anxious world by parties unnamed. It provided for the creation of a brand new company (the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co.) to acquire and hold the stocks of the old "Nickel Plate" (the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Co.), the Erie, the C. & O., the Hocking Valley, and the Pere Marquette. The new company will have two classes of stock, common and 6% preferred, which will be exchanged in varying ratios for the stocks of the several roads going into the merger, on terms apparently...