Word: behindhand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much trouble to investigate beforehand the most important problem of his life; he must learn behindhand by experience. This for Methuselah, but hardly for mortals. In any job this man will get but a worm's eye view of one business, and his hours will be too full even to give much thought to alternative occupations...
...esthetic charm." To take Science as a religion is a mistaken act of faith from which agnostics have still to recover. Science has already given up the idea that its mathematics can ever be a cosmic Esperanto. Men-in-the-street, always up on news of the day but behindhand on news of the century, still think in terms of an outmoded scientific materialism, unaware that in the last 40 years there has been the greatest scientific revolution since Copernicus. In this new dispensation "matter began to thin away into the completely spectral thing it has now become. . . . The notion...
...Supreme Court was, and is, composed of men whose consecration in life is to the high art of being legal. But it is not their consecration to be philosophers, and perhaps that is why, with the exception of Holmes, Brandeis, and Cardozo, the Court is fifty years behindhand in its political philosophy. The Roscoe Pound of a golden prime was wont to insist that law was in really social engineering; now he talks ponderously of the common courts and of their law which must chiefly enforce our security. When the arch-apostle of social jurisprudence has left his banner, what...
...Rameses II, it is the only subject that occupies my thoughts. ... So here I am, searching desperately for novel combinations to show off this aquatic instrument. . . . Considering that this Fantaisie' was ordered, and paid for, and eaten more than a year ago, I realize that I am behindhand with it. ... The saxophone is a reed instrument with whose habits I am not very well acquainted. I wonder whether it indulges in romantic tenderness like the clarinet...