Word: blight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only real Reds are the Communists and Anarchists, few in number and decreasingly attractive to Socialists. Prosperity in the U. S. and the periodic disorderliness of irresponsible members of their party seem to blight such sympathies as they enlist through being periodically persecuted. William Z. Foster, William F. Dunne (the Daily Worker) and the late Charles Ruthenberg (TIME, March 14) (Communists), and the late Sacco & Vanzetti (Anarchists) are the best known names among them. For the most part they are hot-eyed men of obscure pursuits and little estate, intense indealists as often as scoundrels; lacking organization as badly...
...Judas Iscariot, the United States had its Benedict Arnold and Jefferson Davis, and Illinois has Len Small. And if the Judas of Illinois had the courage of the Judas of Jesus, he would return the 30 pieces of silver, get a rope and hang himself, and remove the withering blight which will remain upon this state as long as he is Governor of Illinois...
...until last week, however, did newsgatherers learn the impressive details of germination. . . . Despatches from Forli told that the sprouting shoots of Signer Mussolini "have already done so well that they are considered the best of the whole region. . . ." From the super-sower, super-wheat. Although wheat rust may yet blight the harvest, Fascist editors hinted broadly last week that the tender sproutlings of Il Duce will potently mature until the Ministry of National Economy will delight to honor him with a prize awarded each year to the husbandman whose average yield of wheat per ara* shows the greatest percentage...
...relation between the faculty and the students, and the unrest of the latter. Dr. Little makes a point that some of the most prominent educators have ignored; and that is that youth is to be preserved; an education which serves to shorten the period of youth is only a blight. Youth should not be cut off; it should be made to grow. "Scholastic achievements must be made a part of youth, not youth a part of scholastic achievements." Here undoubtedly he has hit upon a vital point. Since youth is so valuable--and so fleeting--will not scholasticism tend...
...proverb. "Those on whom the gods smile die young" can never blight athletic fortune, for the smiles of gods of sport are much too transient. Nevertheless, even their passing favor is pleasant. And the University may well seize the moment to observe the recent successes of its teams...