Word: aimless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much of the actual fighting in Ireland was over, but men were known for their deeds and their sympathies. He sets up a family from the slums of Dublin, and through them he lashes at principles stubbornly adhered to only because they are principles, the folly of romantic and aimless sacrifice, the spirit of brotherly love and humanity that fails as soon as it is put to the specific test. Even God is called to account, but He is absolved by the tragic mother's denunciation of her own species. The Catholic Church does not escape O'Casey...
...honors student, particularly those writing a laboratory thesis, the field is an invigorating prelude to advanced work in medicine. But for those unfortunates cut loose before the Junior year from the only coordinating ties, there will be nothing left but aimless ambling through the tangled pastures of Chemistry and Biology, selecting a course here or there. For them the last pretence of a field of Biochemistry is swept away...
...book begins at Krebs' famous inn at Skaneatles, wanders to Lily Dale and Chautaqua, back to the Genesee country, and through the Bristol Hills. It follows an aimless route in the Rochester-Geneseo-Buffalo area, through to the Binghamton-Ithaca "Storm Country", "Down the Bear Path Road" of Central New York, up North to the Adirondacks, "Land of Frozen Flame." Hit and miss Mr. Carmer picks up local anecdotes, Indian superstitions, regional customs, scenic wonders, as he goes. It is a peculiar system of newsgathering he uses, here depending on what he sees and knows, here taking in the stories...
...After aimless years as a humble laborer and newspaper man, Sandburg startled American letters with his Chicago Poems in 1915. Edgar Lee Masters discovered the emptiness of small town middle western life in Spoon River Anthology in 1922 after he had ceased to practice law. To Lombard's Carl Sandburg, Knox College has given an honorary Litt. D. To its own son Edgar Lee Masters, Knox has awarded no similar honor...
...President Roosevelt's Baltimore speech of the thirteenth is any indication of what we may expect from a second caging of the Elephant, it is time to hamstring the Donkey instead. The nation is still fairly placid in spite of the aimless and futile experimentation it has undergone. But if that experimentation is to be revived, with no emendation and no attempt to contract its illegality, the guinea pig has every right to become a snorting wild boar...