Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...student accustomed to the easy-going, good-hearted manners of the Biological laboratories is near prostration at his first glimpse of the inner workings in the domain of chemistry. He has lived from hand to mouth, intellectually speaking, and is suddenly forced to conform to rule in every breath he takes. This tends to destroy the precious faculty of indifference and is discouraging. But an even worse effect of the department's callousness is the harm it does to what the undergraduate regards as "academic leisure": instead of being delightfully at his ease, the student of chemistry is made...
...Republican arguments of 1896 against Bryanism, Pennsylvania's Senator Reed bitterly flayed the Wheeler silver amendment: "It would be giving a great cash bonus to India and perhaps China. . . . Panic and crisis would be precipitated. . . . We'd see a flight of capital that would take our breath away. . . . There would be such a catastrophic overturn of American business that all the benefits would be obviated. . . . It's like stealing from one class to help another. ... I don't believe that the people of the United States have gone dishonest overnight because we're having...
...next breath the editorial proposed as an alternative that the association appoint one of the existing journals as its official organ, supply it free to members...
...prey to the prevalent weakness for "significant figures" and catch-words at the very time when the need for clear thinking is greatest. "Technocracy," which has furnished a source of news to every periodical in the nation, but which has finally exploded in a cloud of misunderstanding and wasted breath, is merely a more extreme example of this predilection for grandstand play. It cannot be maintained that all the exponents of startling new theories are merely seeking remuneration; many are admittedly altruistic. But a cause which, like that of the Economic League, is fundamentally sound should be guided in every...
...matter how he troubles the waters, no matter how deeply lucid he may leave them, at the bottom of every book its author may be found. Herbert George Wells cannot hold his breath long enough to stay there: he comes bobbing up, threshes around, blows off steam at a great rate. So argumentative did his novels become that after a while they ceased to be novels, turned to Outlines of History, Sciences of Life, Salvagings of Civilization. Not since Meanwhile (1927) has he written a book that even he would call a novel. With The Bulpington of Blup, which...