Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entrants, in form or function of the University too little realize how very necessary it is that the huge numbers who now want and can get an education must be assimilated into the life of the University Any methods which best assists in such assimilation must not have the abrupt disregard of those who forget how many there are who now desire what the University has and is unable in any huge amounts to give. Either the University becomes a factory or it attempts in some new way to meet a new situation...
...inscriptions before the first definite date in the history of the New World which is August 6, 613 B.C. This is historical zero, discovered in calculations, but the first dated monument comes a full five centuries later. But we should be almost equally pleased to throw light on the abrupt downfall of this lost people. For human interest, after all, is the fundamental appeal in this riddle, and one cannot stop wondering what became of the sailors who abandoned a full-rigged, sea-worthy ship in mid-journey...
...abrupt termination of the conference of the League disappoints those who hoped that the Locarno pact had meant the final establishment of Europe on a peace-time basis. From certain quarters ominous croakings are heard to the effect that the Genevan flasco has revealed the hollowness of the new spirit and sounded the death knell of the League. Yet in the harmony prevailing among the Locarno signatories, there is cause for the belief that the progress of international understanding has incurred only a temporary check. The longing of the war-torn European nations for a new world order is still...
...transition form school to college has long been an outstanding problem of education. Many suggestions have been proffered and accepted by those at the helm to make the break less abrupt, the Yard walls less distressing. As time has gone on, however, educators have realized that the real solution to the Gordian knot lay in the students themselves...
These jarring transitions when coupled with such an abrupt initial opening do much to destroy the artistic illusion of reality which is elsewhere carefully sustained. Mr. Haggard in "She" and "Ayesha" dealt with equally fastastic romantic themes, but he blended the elements of time and space in such a way as to heighten the reality of the supernatural...