Word: decays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There has been a gradual decay of religious influence in European civilization," said Professor Alfred N. Whitehead, Professor of Philosophy, at the nineteenth meeting of the Phillips Brooks House lecture course in religion held in Peabody Hall yesterday...
Some months ago "Vanity Fair" satirized the decay of free institutions in America. Passed over lightly at the time, the satire is brought vividly to mind by the widely heralded trial of Gerald Chapman. The press reports are almost universally in a vein to create the hostile public opinion by which juries are so easily swayed. The "New York Times" even states that Chapman's diabolically superhuman mind has, since his capture, mastered criminal law so thoroughly that he is now directing his own defense, and will concoct the subtle lies that will be stated in his favor...
...wish to hamper the people in their right to earn a living, we must have tax reform. . . . This country believes in prosperity. It is absurd to suppose that it is envious of those who are already prosperous. . . . The result of economic dissipation to a nation is always moral decay...
...present generation of college students. Such sentiment fails to consider that institutions must cater to the student if he is to approve them. Unless they do, students, who are always realists living in the present, will build new institutions of their own and leave the old in picturesque decay. The closing of Memoria Hall is a natural sequence of the failure to meet the demands of adaptation. University life few away and left Memorial Hall isolated, not because Harvard ceased to need it, but because Memorial Hall ceased to fill the need...
WHITE CARGO? This grim little drama of a man's decay among the black brothers of Africa has been running longer than almost anything else in town...