Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mystery and romance out of travel. And if predictions proved correct so that through a common tongue all nations of the world arrived at mutual understanding and peace the entire company of admirals and generals, armies, and militant statesmen would be lost for ever from a materialistic age thirsting for the wine of chivalry and pining for the fanfare of battle...
...Levine agrees with Sukhanov, whom he quotes, that Lenin was a genius. Although the man had "an extremely limited mental horizon", having made up his mind at the age of twenty-three to adhere to the Marxian principles, he was "uncommonly potent and prolitic within these limitations. He was a rare combination of a doctrinaire, a statesman, and a popular leader; he was both visionary and practical...
...schoolboy who has chewed his pencil top ragged trying to decide between an el and an ie will be the first to favor Mr. Blaneo's suggestion. But those who have emerged from that untutored age usually take a craftsman's delight in puzzling out the jumble of vowels and consonants that represent primitive grunts and groans. Even if by simplification English could become the world's language a vigorous cry must be raised against such a process...
Begins "Golden Age" of Victories...
...focusing the dissatisfaction with acquisitive society" it has gained the support of men of science arts, and letters, so that in it the tires of idealism which once warmed the blood of the old liberal party have been rekindled. And in an Donald's ministry would at once kindle age of reconstruction it would seem that it is such a spirit that is best fitted to hew new paths. The fate of the labor party rests rather in its methods than in its principles...