Word: endless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poverty's backwash-tired women in frayed dresses of years ago, old men who capture a smoke from discarded stubs of cigars." The home will be "a place for those who cling miserably to vacant seats on park benches, who sit all day in branch libraries reading endless newspapers, and who, sometimes, when fortune favors them, get a chance to carry huge advertisements for cheap trousers or tumbledown restaurants on their backs...
...anniversary of Harry Elkins Widener's death it is fitting that those words spoken at the laying of the cornerstone of the Library should be quoted. "We may indulge the hope that as long as scholarship and learning are honored and the wisdom of the pas, is cherished, the endless generations of future scholars will seek this spot and recall with the same grateful spirit with which we recall the names of Harvard and of Gore, the name of the donor of the enduring building to be erected here...
...Perspective is necessary, furthermore, for literature is such an endless thing. Only a very distorted view can be had from up close. To view it from a distance, however, is very difficult. In other words, I do not believe in taking contemporary literature criticism too seriously. Were I asked to name five modern novels which I might expect to be remembered fifty years from now, I should reply quite candidly that I could...
...almost lovable during his invasion of the town of Dryomov, with hia masterful bluntness, self-assurance, genuine humility, faith in work; his crude affection for his sons, his bold carnality. Pyotr, the eldest son, is no less stupid than his father except that he knows he is stupid. His endless wondering about the right and wrong of things is what undoes him. Did he kill the clerk's nasty little boy by accident, he asks himself, or in malice, or to save his own son an evil companionship. He cannot decide that and a hundred other matters. Uncertainty makes...
...greatest evils in the mass production which is the modern factory system is the use of man power as machinery, a sort of machinery with eyes and fingers to give so and so many turns to such and such bolts as they pass by in an endless, changeless stream from morning till night; a sort of machinery that gets in the habit of doing its particular bit of work like the dog on the turnspit and requires about as much intellegence. It is this habit in factory work of which Mr. E. D. Smith will speak at 9 o'clock...