Word: reflectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...verse. He has written also many other things both scientific and whimsical among them being "The New Belfry" in ridicule of some bells put up at Christ Church. It may seem incomprehensible to some that a mathematician could evolve such a wonderland out of his precise, factual mind. But reflect, has not a mathematician much nearer home erected for himself a wonderland of equal whimsy; and has he not also his new belfry...
...simple matter; and in doing it college records alone do not suffice. So far as possible the men are personally seen. In fact members of the staff interviewed seventy-one per cent of the applicants, visiting eighty colleges; and this last figure is not large if we reflect that in the year just past every State was represented in the School, and graduates of two hundred and eleven colleges...
...cure of this evil depends on a change in the spirit of contemporary life in general. It is futile to talk of fostering intellectual and scholarly ideals unless the community which shapes both the education and the student is upholding a similar ideal. Colleges in general will continue to reflect the environment in which they exist...
...have vilified and violated the duties which these impose. Such mothers will find it particularly useful to lift their eyes to Mary and seriously consider to what height of dignity she has elevated the very heavy task of motherhood. . . . Are they [Protestants], perhaps, ignorant of, or do not they reflect attentively on the fact that nothing can be more acceptable to Jesus Christ, who certainly burns with great love for his mother, than to venerate her according to her merits, to love her deeply . . . ?" To all Protestants and to Eastern Christians who still cling to the heresies of Nestorius, Pope...
...people, their eyes turned inward on the U. S., not outward on the world. They know, perhaps better than the man in the White House, what citizens are saying, thinking, feeling. Now back in the world atmosphere of Washington, their words and deeds, right or wrong, were taken to reflect the mass opinion of the nation...