Word: dormant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This delay has often caused loss of interest in scholastic work, due, in large measure, to a new absorption in the relatively more entertaining field of extra-curricular activities. In itself this cannot be deplored except in that the former scholastic drive often remains dormant even after the first-year rules have been lifted and the signal is set to go ahead. Extra-curricular interests such as publications, instrumental clubs, debating, the Glee Club and the like can become extremely absorbing and books and scholastic requirements are easily pushed to one side till some later date; a date which grows...
...possible political repercussions, rather than the unethical and probably illegal aspects of the measure, which attract attention. Somewhat dormant recently, popular feeling and fears about recovery would be sufficiently whipped into a froth to reenforce Republican sentiment. The two proponents are, indeed, Republicans, but of the insurgent variety and they draw most of their support from the Democratic ranks. The real suggestibility of the measure, if it develops momentum, lies in what position Senator Borah might be forced to take, with his long record of favoring farmers and inflationists...
...beyond the tree line, its motors suddenly coughed. Back at once circled the pilot in search of a landing place. Before he could find one, his plane was caught in a strong air current, slithered downward, crashed in a fountain of flame on the rocky saddle between the two dormant volcanoes. When rescuers climbed up over the mountain flank, most of the 14 bodies were incinerated beyond recognition...
...serious objection to the ten dollar athletic levy proposed by the Crimson is raised elsewhere on this page. "Either the University must accept as inevitable the domination of an athletic hierarchy," says Mr. Jones, "or reassert its long dormant spirit of open minded toleration". This statement of the case is, it is safe to say, at least an exaggeration...
...intellectual fibres of "college" men by the iron heel of crude commercialism, but you have the unmitigated presumption to suggest that we contribute to it. There is no middle road. Either the university must accept as inevitable the domination of an athletic hierarchy, or reassert its long dormant spirit of open minded tolerance...