Word: dross
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the stones had been formed after a petrified forest was prehistorically inundated by volcanic ash and lava. Made bold by successful recent raids on Nevada gold mines, bandits broke into a store of the gems laid away by prospectors, but soon found their precious loot turned to worthless dross in their hands. Softer than most gems, opals must be aged slowly in clay to permit their water to evaporate. Dried too fast, they crack and disintegrate into dust...
...forced to pore over the carefully worded pages of the Bible, but this time he is able to give it a fair hearing. College, if it teaches anything, teaches a young man to judge of things for himself. If then he finds gold in these pages, where all seemed dross before, he is very apt to appreciate and remember. There are certain qualities in its simple beautiful style and plain old English which are very hard to duplicate...
...fires of controversy over liberalism which blazed viciously at Amherst upon the resignation of President Meiklejohn last June have apparently burned out; but rather than dross and ashes they have left a refined conception of a liberal college which has found expression in the program published by twenty-six alumni in the Amherst Student. There is nothing remarkable, however, in either the ideas or their phrasing. The definition that "a liberal college must be one in which the intellectual aim is dominant" and one which will thoroughly ground the student in the essentials of "an intelligent scheme of values...
...three great departments of it?to discharge the high duties imposed upon it?yea, more, the peril of permitting a party to select men for such places. This Teapot Dome is a crucible in which a great political organization shall be tested, and it is found to be dross. That is the reason the elephant trembles from trunk to tail...
...streams of population that have been and are pouring in upon us are age old in racial character and capacity. We are the melting pot. Into it has been poured, almost promiscuously, every dross ingredient of citizenship that the earth produces, the good...