Word: fate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman returned betimes, heart throbbing. But in that package, what a falling off was there! Special delivery airmail scaled Vassar's fate. He spared no words in tirade of deep hate...
Morally this was a Chinese crisis. Historically, the fate of Eastern Asia might turn on who went Red and who did not. Geographically, there was interposed between China's migratory Red State and Soviet territory in Siberia and Outer Mongolia last week: 1) Japanese-dominated Manchukuo; 2) Japan's sphere of influence in North China; 3) the nomadic Mongols under famed Prince Te who openly exacts regular bribes from both Nanking and Tokyo (TIME, March 23 et ante), but seems in the depths of his complex character to be anti-Red. Just over the Soviet frontier...
...Donkin, a senior housemaster at Marbledown School, was far from wearied by his long years of welldoing, asked nothing more of fate than another decade or so in harness. An excellent pedagog, he had his little weaknesses, such as the daily crossword puzzle in the Times, and his old-bachelor devotion to the faded girl's photograph on his mantelpiece. (She had married a dashing artist, mothered four children, died.) His boys were devoted to Mr. Donkin, but Marbledown's new Headmaster was not, considered him an old-fashioned obstructionist nearly ready for the pruning knife. All unaware...
...civilization" at bargain prices on the island of St. John, V. I., by a newlywed pair who fled New York to escape the big corporations, the political rabies of their Depression-time friends. On a side trip into Dutch Guiana Author Holdridge found warm, if contradictory clues to the fate of Paul Redfern, the lost flyer, but lacked money to follow them...
...those who attended were told that "The new science is entirely different from the idea of knowledge that found its value in an unchecked effort to reach the truth. The true freedom of science is to be an organ of a nation's living strength and of its historic fate and to present this in obedience to the law of truth...