Word: abysses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noted, the Chancellor said the Government had saved the nation from the horrors which further depreciation of the mark would have brought. He warned the Reichstag that tampering with the Government's decrees would undo the good work and start Germany off in a mad career down the abyss of inflation...
There has always been an abyss between the life, and the thought and the ideals of the eastern and the western civilizations. It has grown wider with the passing of the centuries. The material conflict between the East and the West--the first reaching out of the tendrils of empire on the one side, and the quiet acceptance of the inevitable, in appearance, at least, on the other--has only emphasized the space that still separates the ideas of the two. The abyss has seemed unbridgeable...
Artists and mountain climbers have at least one common qualification. Dizziness must have no terrors for either. Perched on their respective peaks, the world becomes for them a distant and not particularly agreeable noise, wafted irrelevantly from an ignoble abyss. Conversely, the world is insignificantly concerned with the doings of the Alp scalers. Once you get appreciably above sealevel, you cease to be anybody's business. Incidentally, you cease to have any business of your own. Therein lies the glorious, soaring futility of art and mountaineering alike. Neither of them have any conceivable relation to life and the practical living...
...Eastern college elevens were dropped from the select group of unbeaten teams as a result of Saturday's games. Those to fall from their lofty perches near the top rungs of the football ladder were Cornell, Brown, Georgetown and Washington and Jefferson. The University and Princeton having avoided the abyss of defeat by playing a tie game, are two among the seven who can still display clean slates. The others are Penn State, Pittsburg, Wesleyan, Stevens Tech and Boston College...