Word: dross
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is alarming evidence that what politicians and sentimentalists love to call the "melting pot" is fast becoming clogged with unmelted material and dross. For a number of years and enormous tide of immigration has been pouring into America. With woefully inadequate restrictions, all comers have been accepted without questioning there inherent fitness for citizenship or even their purpose in seeking a new land. Once the immigrant has been received into the country, we have trusted assiduously but blindly in the faith the some mysterious alchemy of the melting pot would eventually create a simon pure American...
...been truly said than man does not live by bread alone. History is crowded with instances illustrating the fact that men have cast off this mortal coil as so much worthless dross when impelled by the demands of some spiritual truth. Other men have endured the greatest hardships and privations in their endeavors to create the beautiful in form, in sound, or in color. As it has been with the religious and artistic spirit in the past, so is it with the modern scientific spirit. The desire to find out the secrets of nature impels men to trudge over Arctic...