Word: dormant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nation, and soda pop. A mere St. George-and-the-dragon plot would be trite, unless handled in a novel manner. On second thought, it seems that the choice of the epic form has not all the advantages of some other methods of treatment. The French epic has been dormant since Voltaire's Henriade; and the American epic is still unborn; this leaves the opera as the logical form for such a subject. Here, as nowhere else, could the whole breadth and depth of Prohibition be revealed. Nothing would be more effective than a chorus of Rotarians in derbies, rolling...
...intelligence quota, his ability to deal with facts and situations is constant throughout life. With this in view, to ground him in facts, to give him tools with which to work, would seem the logical means of education. True, an intelligent tutor or stimulating lecturer can often awaken the dormant perceptive and critical faculties. But to let them play unconfined over impossibly wide fields of knowledge for several years, without any strict disciplining of the retentive powers, which are susceptible to improvement, appears but a waste of time. And this is the widely heralded tendency of a humanistic education whose...
...have gone out of his life. We next see him ten years later--his grief has gone, his son is no longer a human to him, but a symbol of the glorious militancy of France. He has become full of words, insincere, prosperous, successful. The ambition which was dormant while his son was alive, has caught fire and he is climbing to prominence upon his son's coffin...
...small gang of newsboys to reach them in any such way. Beyond his committee work and his financial aid he will feel that he is too old to help. In exceptional cases age will not interfere but the fact still remains that far more valuable material is lying dormant in undergraduates, who feel that they are tremendously, oh yes, tremendously over-loaded with work. Most of these same students would have nervous prostration after one day of their fathers' routine...
Indiana. The Hoosier taste in corruption seems to have been comparatively dormant lately. Only one unsavory matter was before the Indiana public last week, namely, the apparent possibility that Governor Ed Jackson was planning to liberate his old political friend, D. C. Stephenson, onetime Ku Klux Grand Dragon, now residing in the state penitentiary, supposedly for life, for kidnaping, criminally assaulting and murdering a girl...