Academe, n.: An ancient school where morali
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: [from academe] A modern school where football is taught.
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid.
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The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to encourage in others.
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morali
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out th
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Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Chemicals, n: Noxious substances from which
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Chemicals, n: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made.
Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, a
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Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science.
Las Vegas: all the amenities of modern soci
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Las Vegas: all the amenities of modern society in a habitat unfit to grow a tomato.
The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole
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The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.
This strange disease of modern life, with its sic
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This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
The modern airplane creates a new geographical di
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The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
Chemicals, n: Noxious substances from which
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Chemicals, n: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made.
The radical novelty of modern science lies precis
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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibio
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Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in payi
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Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
Television is an anesthetic for the pain of the m
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Television is an anesthetic for the pain of the modern world.
Flight is the only truly new sensation than men h
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Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.
This strange disease of modern life, with its sic
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This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in payi
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Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
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