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WHEN America's present posperity, and with it all its creations disappear? The question has often been asked, and as often found a new answer. Usually it is the economist who writes, but in this case a son of American prosperity, a Wall street banker, provides an answer which, perhaps because of its very non-scholarly writing, will attract the business...
...story of the enlargement of Christianity is the story of men moving, thinking things, telling things; always essentially the story of the men who went out from Jerusalem after they had seen Christ die and disappear. This Easter, almost as if the twist of centuries had reversed the lines of force around Jerusalem, the men who are carrying Christianity into the corners of the world were drawn back to Palestine. Two hundred delegates, spokesmen for powerful Christian forces in 51 countries, gathered in Jerusalem for the International Missionary Council (TIME, April...
...more than a necessary evil. It is a great law of nature. . . . War has always accompanied life and will not disappear until life on this planet becomes extinct...
...method to Harry F. Sinclair, whose contributions to the 1920 campaign fund of the party have been discovered to be not entirely from altruistic motives. But a necessary accompaniment to such a speech is the gold itself, and unhappily the Republicans have long ago seen the last of it disappear for "election expenses" of one kind or another. Thus in the absence of the original funds the Senator from Idaho has inaugurated a drive to raise the necessary...
...College has grown, the common meeting grounds have tended to disappear. Classes have been broken up and their members scattered in distant dormitories. That ancient institution, the Fence, has lost its charm. John Doe and the social celebrity, no longer sit side by side on its top rail and aimlessly while away the time between classes. The old beer shops, where all gathered Saturday night for an evening of good fellowship, are but a sacred memory. In their place have come movies, cars, and wholesale migrations known as the "week-end exodus". The last common meeting place to withstand...