Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...good act is a beautiful act," says Mr. Whitman in his "Philosophy of Beauty." This is treading on rather dangerous aesthetic ground since the word Beauty is by Definition (thought not by usage) in its own sphere. The point is best described by the difference between connotation and detonation. Does, for instance, the sight of a beautiful limousine make a man feel pious? Mr. Whitman is inclined to substitute attribute for subject. Even so, the writer has known or heard of few men who come out of aesthetic arguments unscathed...
Various fast scout planes of high speed and unusual climbing ability have been said to approach a helicopter in their vertical climb but no one of these machines, no matter how powerful its engines, has been able to leave the ground at flying speed of less than 45 to 70 miles an hour. A large field is, of course, necessary for this type of plane, and in the aerial mail service for example an open expanse is often difficult to find...
While American troops are in Siberia it is difficult for the Japanese to take any action toward the absorption of this territory. If however, American troops are withdrawn, Japan is given a free hand, and can excuse almost any act on the ground of the necessity of securing Siberia against the Bolsheviki. The chances are excellent that we should shortly find that Japan had assumed the same relation toward Siberia that England held toward Egypt fifteen years ago--or that Japan herself once held toward Korea...
...believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas--that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment. Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge. While that...
...last Saturday, it was shown that Yale had not so much to fear from her opponents' passes as from her own. With the score six to six in the third quarter Neville hastily threw a lateral pass to Kempton. The pass went wild and fell to the ground. Scheerer, a Princeton substitute, scooped up the ball and before the Yale players knew what had happened, he had crossed the goal line for the winning touchdown...