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...Professors Munn, Sanders and Wild, and also Doctors Friedrich, Dunn and Nash. All of the lecturers will emphasize the extremely and practical useful role that the Christian Church can play in leading this chaotic world back to some degree of sanity, and they will lay particular stress on the present-day values of Christ's teachings...
...Dead March (Imperial Pictures). An anti-war compilation from newsreel libraries, its gruesome shots ranging from 1914 to present-day China, with Radio Commentator Boake Carter growling his sinister comments; not even intended to be entertaining...
...words chosen with far less tact than his sovereign was about to use to explain the Sino-Japanese War, Mr. Hirota observed: "We are fighting anti-Japanese movements in China. These exist largely in the Chinese Army, and General Chiang Kai-shek is their spearhead. The leaders of present-day China have long fostered anti-Japanism as a tool for political purposes . . . and they have, through collusion with the communists, openly and energetically prepared for war with Japan...
...most readers, interest in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is now eclipsed by the much-predicted decline & fall of the civilization now current. Because he wrote colorfully and lacked the wide propagandist streak of many modern historians, Edward Gibbon seems to most present-day readers less the greatest English historian than the most industrious and fervid of historical novelists. About the only part of Gibbon's reputation so far not attacked is his claim to being the ugliest historian in English literature, and of having produced, for his size, the most impressive work...
...later remitted) and left Tennessee;* The Tennessee anti-evolution law still stands. Restrictive laws are also on the statute books of Mississippi an Arkansas. Dr. Oscar Riddle of the Carnegie Institution, one of the ablest biologists in the U. S., charges that there is even more pussyfooting in present-day textbooks than there was three decades...