Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Through the invention by Mr. Sperry of a special high-intensity light, it has been possible to make the large search-lights for Army, Navy, and commercial uses of much less weight and, therefore, of greater mobility and usefulness. Mr. Sperry will trace the development and application of these lights and of the remarkable results obtained with them...
...strongly urged that everyone cooperate with the collectors by making a careful search and by turning over to them absolutely everything in the line of clothing (of all sorts and description), books and magazines for which they have no further use. Old coats, suits, shoes and text-books are especially desired, but anything will be welcomed...
...mature scholar sets forth briefly the results of long study, are extremely valuable for such students as have the necessary background to enable them to appreciate the content of these courses, but there is always a danger that such a course may be discovered by an enterprising undergraduate in search of something that he can pass. And such courses are not usually difficult to pass. As an example from another field one might cite the discovery of radium, which to the scientific man was a matter of profound significance affecting the whole fabric of physical science, but the newspaper reporter...
...knows what he wants and how he means to get it is very apt to succeed; and this is not more true of material aims than of higher ones. The object of true religion in every age and every clime has been to search out those things that are of eternal value. Ascetics and mystics have sometimes carried their exaltation so far as to despise the things by which mankind must live, but the great mass of men have erred in the other direction, by seeking only the things of the present. True religion and spiritual wisdom consist in regarding...
...criticism of arbitrary acts of government officials, we cannot see that he has merited such censure as the Attorney General sees fit to give him. The Attorney General admits the truth of the "telegraphic warrant" arrests which have provoked such widespread indignation against his Department. And in regard to search and seizure of documents, he declares that search warrants were secured "in every instance practicable." We had thought that the Constitution rather required such warrants in every case, regardless of whether or not officials considered it "practicable." And with regard to the alleged use of agents provocateurs by the Department...