Word: agelong
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...bewilderment of men who are living through the apparently irrational collapse of a great civilization, "the happiest," says Chamberlin, "and certainly the most creative in the history of Europe." The sense of irrationality is all the greater because this civilization did not decay like Rome or Byzantium by agelong stages of dry rot, but apparently cracked up suddenly and catastrophically, like an incomparable machine shak en to pieces by the super-power of its own superb engines...
...more than prepared to vote in a parliamentary election last week for the first time in their lives. By the millions they were up at dawn, swarming around Spanish polling places. Nuns especially turned out en masse to vote against the Socialists who have so cramped the revenues and agelong privileges in Spain of Mother Church. Amazingly, hundreds of wives of Spanish grandees and nobles who have been living fearfully abroad boldly returned, bringing their husbands in many cases, to vote as their consciences commanded. All over Spain the arrival of a priest to pop his ballot into a voting...
...Feng and Chang are Northerners. North and South China are agelong foes. But last week Southerner Chiang Kaishek, President at Nanking, could at least boast that he had broken and hurled back if not destroyed the armies of Yen and Feng which last spring seemed bent on his extermination. Next spring will be another spring...
...petty kingdoms; and from the 9th Century to the 19th "Italy" lost its meaning as a political entity and became a region of separate states-some free cities, some republics, some ruled by kings, princes, dukes or petty nobles. Thus Italians owe to the House of Savoy no such agelong allegiance as Hungarians feel toward the Habsburgs, or Japanese toward their 124th lineally descended Emperor...
...sublime conception of God which is furnished by science, and one wholly consonant with the highest ideals of religion, when it represents Him as revealing Himself through countless ages in the development of the earth as an abode for man and in the agelong inbreathing of life into its constituent matter, culminating in man with his spiritual nature and all his Godlike powers...