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...suggesting, and endorsing, this peace plan, The Christian Science Monitor has maintained that if war could be made as repellant to all classes as it is to those who must fight, the likelihood of war would be greatly reduced...
...Republican Party, Coolidge is the preeminent candidate and Johnson an industrious but disadvantaged rival. At present there seems likelihood of only two others going to the National Convention with pledged delegates. They are Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, who is expected to have only a fraction of Pennsylvania's 78 delegates, and Senator La Follette, who will have Wisconsin's delegation and some other votes from the Northwest. But because of Mr. La Follette's ill health and his "insurgency" he is not regarded as a serious contender. On the outskirts will hang several favorite sons, such...
...banks ever let go the brakes, a larger inflation than even 1919-20 might occur. At the same time our overlarge gold supply helps in making the business outlook unpredictable according to old methods, because of this necessary yet artificial control of credit now being exercised. Just now the likelihood is for slightly lower money rates, with a consequent rise in bonds and other fixed-income securities...
...Mendell of Yale will make the district report for New England. The committee reports include that of the Football Rules Committee, which will be made by the chairman, Mr. E. K. Hall. This year there has been little agitation for new rules, and there is therefore little likelihood of any momentous action on the part of the committee...
...agrees with scientific thinking agree also with the idea of the Virgin Birth, which Science and experience show to be impossible?" If you speak thus, you forget another part of "Scientific thought", a part which holds that Science and experience have shown little with likelihood of surety, and nothing with certainty of it. Hence the Virgin Birth cannot be counted out on that score. Furthermore, all who deny the possibility of Virgin Birth forget that there is a class of happenings, or miracles, which confound and contradict the usual scientific occurrences, if the two groups are considered together, even...