Word: chasms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the 1924 presidential campaign, much was heard concerning the "Coolidge myth." Democrats maintained that between the President's capacity and the President's reputation yawned a tremendous chasm, that a Republican press had created a fiction of a "strong, silent" White House occupant. When the President won the election with a plurality of 7,300,000 votes, they attributed his victory to the potency of the Coolidge "myth...
...looked into the chasm of the insanity that is higher than sanity during a wilderness period following the failure of his first marriage, but regained a balance fortified by the experience. It taught him the relation of self-expansion and self-obliteration, the phases by which, like two legs constantly passing each other, mankind has marched-Roman power, Christian abnegation; Renaissance, Reformation; hayfoot, strawfoot. He renewed the motion of his days, saying: "The stream of life, like running water, can purify itself...
According to recent speeches at a Harvard Club dinner the green college freshman is a thing of the past, the jump from school to college has ceased to be the yawning chasm it once was. This statement, as far as it goes, is true for the college freshman of today, who undoubtedly receives a truer conception and a better preparation for the four years on which he is about to embark than the youth in a similar position twenty or thirty years ago. Preparatory schools have assumed a somewhat more collegiate atmosphere, scholarship is on a high plane and college...
...trips that made his name, to the bright-hued rock-gorge country of the Far West with government geologists. It was an ideal locale for a devoted student of Turner and of nature's iridescent color effects. Congress paid him $10,000 apiece for his companion canvases, "Chasm of the Colorado" and "Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone," which were hung in the Capitol...
...EIGHTEENTH CENTURY?Maud Wyndham ?Hougliton Mifflin?(2 vols., $10.00). These books, based upon the correspondence of the Lyttelton family, cover one of the most placid periods of English history?the early Hanoverian period. Apart from their value to history, which is not inconsiderable, they show what a wide chasm the England of today has jumped...