Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More than 20 years ago, in the White House, Theodore Roosevelt sat chatting with Leonard Wood after a stiff fencing bout. Leonard Wood had recently completed a health-harassing, nerve-defying job which history may well record as the most brilliant proconsulship of the age. (History is even now saying that in four years Leonard Wood advanced Cuban civilization four centuries...
...pure scientist. Yet Professor Pupin's position and experience merely serve to give them greater weight. Science has made the world smaller, bringing about multifarious political factions. Perhaps it is now going to find a method to eliminate these frictions by establishing a fraternity of science in an age when the fraternity of religion is at best a remembrance. At least any efforts made in that direction will receive the cooperation of intelligent minds scientific or other wise...
...glamor of the "enternal' city" cannot be impaired by its association with dictators or the rabble of an illiterate populace. If possible, these rather enhance its fanciful and fashionable eclat by emphasizing the vicissitudes of its fortunes. Rome's most up-to-date advertising is still her age...
...always demanded romance from Rome and, if historians or connoisseurs of any pretentions, they have usually been satisfied. If not they have imagined satisfaction. However this may be, the proposed new Rome of the Dictator evokes in men a Byronic grandiosity which rather deserves its hour in a mechanistic age, even if diluted among democratic addicts with sighs of Byronic pity...
...needs of the passing years in so far as those needs do not encroach upon her function as a university of culture and intelligence, Harvard faces the future as honestly and with as much pride as she remembers her past. And to do both is fundamentally necessary in an age of Mussolinis and mechanics, plebiscites and prohibition, factual fancies and fanciful facts...