Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noteworthy that the new liberal complexion derives not only from President Roosevelt but from the old "insurgent" Republicans or Progressives with whom, the old Democratic minority used to work. Out of line with all parties for a lifetime, Nebraska's grey old Senator Norris, who finally slew the archaic lame duck session of Congress with the 20th Amendment, now finds the majority party in line with himself on public utilities and farm relief. Colorado's Costigan was for years the left-handed bad boy of the Tariff Commission. He will shortly behold his dream- a rationalized, selective tariff...
...unvarying rules of economics to be relied upon. These assumptions are based upon the doctrines of economists who developed their theses when men depended upon their own muscles and brains, and upon the animals they had trained. Since these men all lived before the age of mechanization, these are archaic principles...
John Masefield. Poet Laureate of England, has developed into such a gently archaic poet that readers of his laureations are apt to forget his hard, seafaring youth. But Masefield himself has not forgotten; ships have always been his lights-o'-love, and in The Bird of Dawning he returns to them with his old youthful fervor. This tale of clipper ships of the China sea trade, just before the days when steam swept sail from the seas, would make a young man's reputation, should shore up old Poet Masefield's against the seeping criticisms of sentimental...
...least satisfied with the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. But so entrenched were the traditions and methods of gaining this degree at Harvard, and so long and forbidding the task of changing them, that he preferred to leave it to a younger man who should succeed him. This archaic and cumbersome bequest, the Graduate School, may be regarded as the greatest problem of the new presidency...
...absorbing than producing ideas, . . . and those seeking only the master's degree now generally required for teaching" great freedom obviously will not do; they must be brigaded in some degree, and put through the routine of classes. Particularly is this true of candidates for the M.A. degree, an archaic shibboleth which is kept mainly because of the requirements of state secondary school boards. The shibboleth may be continued for those who are able to study for only a year, or as a preliminary for those who wish to take the doctorate and lack the proper college background. It would...