Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Harvard, are interested, is basically a remodelling of the teachings of Christ so that they will fit in with present-day beliefs. Such "medieval superstitions" as Heaven and Hell are entirely at variance with the modern trend of a philosophy built on science. While the leaders of the movement express no intention to undervaluate the Bible, a literal interpretation of the doctrines it expresses are to them impossible. Rather, they prefer to regard the Old and New Testaments as an allegory, an expression in literature of a great people. For that reason there is no argument for withholding the prophetic...
...more evidence of the Empty Seat Problem and the operators' determination to solve it, even during the sparsest flying season of the year. Other transport companies are trying analogous traffic stimulators. Last month Universal offered mileage books at exactly the railroad-Pullman rates. Last week Western Air Express offered similar rates to all public officials along its line. Colonial Airways offered its passengers freedom from tipping, and hot soup...
...Dealer Godfrey Phillips of London ordered sent from Belgium a canvas by Sir Anthony Van Dyck which he intended to buy for $100,000. The picture, called Concert des Anges, shows a life-size Madonna and Child surrounded by buxom angels. When the packing case arrived in London the express company told Dealer Phillips that the box had arrived in damaged condition. Said he: "Never mind about the case; is the picture all right...
Dealer Phillips hurried to the express office, found in the case a big gilt frame with ragged edges of canvas where the painting had been torn out. There was no clue as to the time or place of the theft. Dealer Phillips said he believed it the work of a "novice or an expert in a great hurry...
...Minister André Tardieu (L'Americain) of France. Said he: "I take particular pleasure in this because I was myself one of the Consolidated Press Association's earliest contributors when it inaugurated the happy plan of opening its wires to Europeans in political life, permitting them to express freely their views to the American public. ... So far as a government can exercise by frankness and honesty an educative influence on public opinion in both countries, I promise you that so long as I remain in office I shall do everything in my power ... to achieve that salutary...