Word: decays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...younger generation, Mr. Burns said, "It is your duty to take a proper interest in the politics of this country--your duty to bring to justice the men who are spreading propaganda. Take a greater interest in the upbuilding of the country, and save out country from moral decay...
...important seaport in China; one of the world's largest cities not situated on navigable waters; a source of electric power in Africa; a mountain range of the complex type; the seat of an ancient civilization in Central America; a powerful city of ancient Syria, now fallen into decay; a country at the headwaters of the Nile; a region in the Southern Hemisphere with a monsoon climate; a French possession in the West Indies...
...action on the matter, and the danger remedied itself. Either the tunnel was deliberately stopped up by the students, for fear of encroachments of visiting Incas from the metropolis; or else in the revival of intellectual interest during the golden age it was neglected and fell into natural decay. Cordially yours. J. BLAIR DUNCAN...
...Professor Reisner's discoveries just made public by the University, tells a romantic story. Here is a subject ready to the hand of a sentimental philosopher--the story of an ancient race, long ruling the Upper Nile, and once sovereign over all Egypt, now laid bare in its decay by the spade of scientific investigation...
...tempted to distort this small offense into a sign of the world's decay, and to philosophize thereon--"O tempora! O mores!" But let it suffice to point out why the slight on Widener especially is deplorable. The Library stands as a memorial, the cenotaph of a young scholar and enthusiast of books. By this simple yet significant act, the uncovering of the head, we pay our humble respect to his memory...