Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three days State detention for sabre-hacking a Count Almassy in a duel. For his part in the duel, which originated in a bar when a lady's name was lightly mentioned, Count Almassy will serve two days State detention?confinement under supervision with privilege of receiving guests, eating self-provided food...
...Promotion of Aeronautics which the former has been administering. They discussed the things they had done for aeronautics, the things they wanted to do. A half-million dollars more, they decided, would take care of the final odds & ends of their cultural-industrial project. Then they could consider their self-imposed job done. Dec. 31 this year would be a good day to mark the Fund's end. So they decided, and so Harry Guggenheim announced last week...
...Post Office point of view. To the indigent reading public it doubtless seemed a fine and thoughtful Federal service. But the publishers of national magazines were sore vexed when lately, they found out what was going on. Any thriving magazine has a constant demand for back numbers. Thrifty, self-respecting publishers are at pains to recover all unsold or undelivered copies. The National Publishers Association registered a sharp protest with Postmaster-General Brown, who referred the matter to slender Arch Coleman, his First Assistant. Publishers were particularly agitated by the possibility that the Post Office was offering sales competition...
...word for religion. But orthodox religion will not find much in common with such statements as this: "Belief of any kind in what is supernatural seems to me to imply a faltering in religious faith. . . . Men of science . . . will never accept any belief in supernatural interference. Belief in the self-consistency of the universe is for them equivalent, in ultimate analysis, to belief in the existence of God." Philosophy (religion) has a very practical importance "in bringing consistency into the relations between different kinds of knowledge." Philosopher Haldane has no fears for the future of religion, but the influence...
Taylor Gordon, famed here and abroad for singing spirituals, needs no ghostwriter to tell his story for him. He tends to his own self-expression...