Word: chasm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...political development at which it is proper to consider and put into practice a more rational means of settling international disputes than by the accustomed resort to arms. To the intellectually timid this seems such a daring and impetuous leap from the secure confines of precedent, over the chasm of unfathomable disaster, to the safe but somewhat precarious region of a new and better international life, that they lose no opportunity to be-little its advantages and magnify its difficulties. Such men are utterly out of tune with the age in which they live; in their minds they are living...
...interesting fact that the motive which actuated Harvard in devising and adopting its "new plan" of admission may be seen at work in other quarters. The motive was that of bridging the chasm between the College and the schools of the country which had not been making it primarily their business to fit their pupils for entering Harvard or any other college, but had been trying to give them a sound, general, if so-called "secondary" education. These boys, in many widely scattered parts of the country, were often boys of the sort that Harvard has felt itself qualified...
...wage, his low standard of living, his tendency to congest in the alums, to enter unrestricted;--gorge the labor market, force hundreds of thousands out of work, prevent any permanent betterment in the laborer's status, further pauperism, lawlessness, revolution, curse the nation with ignorance, widen the chasm between wealth and poverty,--or, restrict! Allow this nation to face its own problems, protect its rights and liberties, establish justice from the laborer up, solve the problems for the true democracy, for ourselves and all nations, not the least for those nations whose immigration we find it is now our duty...
...being formed by forty or fifty feet of snow drifting info a deep mountain gulch. When the spring rains come, the water percolates through this body, causing the bottom of it to melt away. The immense mass, weighing hundreds of tons, then starts on its swift course down the chasm, tearing everything before it. One picture showed how a slide had cut a straight, narrow path directly through a forest, and in one instance had driven a log completely through a larger tree. The momentum of these slides coming from such a height and in such great mass is almost...