Word: decays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repeated charge of Fascism in education becomes pointless. Any attempt at censorship in the name of Democracy, moreover, is absurd and dangerous. Among liberal democratic ideals the freedom of the individual--which involves freedom of expression and of publication--is fundamental. Minorities, if we are to avoid crystallization and decay, must be allowed to criticize existing conditions and in turn to submit their proposals to criticism, so that the evil or the unworkable may be rejected and the valuable utilized. The defensive panic of reactionaries, rather than any communistic agitation, is the greatest existing menace to democracy and free capitalism...
...Earth is so old that if its story were imagined as a 500-page book, recorded history would fit easily into the last word, the Christian era into the last letter. How is this known? The rate at which radioactive substances decay can be experimentally determined, and hence the age of radioactive rock can be told by the amount of decay observed. In Canada there are rocks that reveal an age of 1,230,000,000 years. Yet Earth could not be more than two or three times that old, because otherwise all the radium would have decayed to lead...
...Negro who had picked him up on the road from Jamestown, a young, history-loving sightseer jolted one day 20 years ago into Williamsburg, colonial and Revolutionary capital of Virginia. He found a ramshackle, sleepy town, its past glories all but forgotten, its historic buildings fallen to decay. Last week the same sightseer, now President of the U. S., rolled into Williamsburg by special train. This time he found a trim, spacious 18th Century village, complete with cobbled streets, grassy curbs, antique buildings...
...Cornell received a 620-acre wildwood near Ithaca for use as a field laboratory, accepting the donors' provision that man's hand shall never dredge or dam its streams, quarry its rocks, disturb the birth, growth, death and decay of any living thing within its boundaries...
...situation. About 200 rats, 15 cats and kittens, a pair of squirrels, and about 40 salamanders are regularly kept and a pair of monkeys were added last year to the collection. There is also a moth-eaten stuffed tiger whose tail is at present in the process of decay that was, according to one of the professors, rescued from the rubbish heap of the University Museum and is now used as a hat rack by the students...