Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a party of friends, he skips merrily along, not a thought in his head. Like an intellectual kitten, he likens himself to Rousseau; for a moment he toys with the idea of completing this marvelous day by inviting his soul in a boat, but his more mundane friends, drag him off on their worldly course. The Easter afternoon blurs and shimmers in a quintessential furor of sheer delight. The Vagabond realizes that Nirvana is near. The day wears away; the sun is setting in a receptive, motherly, western glow; in a culminative ecstasy of bliss, the Vagabond sits...
...case of Chicago is by no means a singular one. Even before the economic to system lapsed into stagnancy there was enough evidence in large municipalities to condemn the ugly hegemony of politics over education. Local politics have only proved themselves a serious drag on the American educational system, and there is every reason to believe that a nationalization of education would effect the necessary financial regulation. Further, a single controlling department would provide uniformity of education and effectively stamp out remaining evidences of American illiteracy. To force a change, however, would require, first, the marshalling of a dormant public...
...indescribable picture," said a rescuer who helped prop one wing up with fenceposts to drag out victims. "Men were crying, 'Get me out!' and 'Oh, God, why doesn't somebody do something...
...brown paw, pulled Tony into the cage. While the other two urchins yelled and threw mud, small Brother John picked up a piece of iron pipe, squeezed through the bars. With all his might he smacked Lillian across her tender snout. Howling, the bear backed off, let an attendant drag the badly-mauled Tony to safety...
...honors vs. Pass-degree scheme. Some of my best honor men have not found the subject until the Sophomore year and have not awakened to recognition of their own power till their Junior year. Dare we risk losing such men even though to find them, we must drag along the intellectually uncurious? I should prefer to tutor every man as intensively as he desires, and then have no regrets over those who fail the divisional examinations. (But of course if the tutoring system is merely a substitute for the widow, I have the wrong slant on everything...