Word: ferment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think that after having once lived in them the rest of life would be exile. They have cost millions, and millions are to be spent. Why this lavish outlay in college already richly endowed. It is in the hope contriving and intellectual climate ever more friendly to that mysterious ferment which here and there causes to rise in some human breast the yeast of a creative life-purpose...
Mysterious this ferment surely is. A spring is not securely basined in marble, it may bubble through the neighboring turf; and spiritual ferment is often generated by studies quite outside college courses. A man in the Harvard class of 1908, who later distinguished himself, once told me that on a November day, when the Yale game was being played in New Heaven, he sat in a leather armchair beside a fire of logs in the library of the Union, from after breakfast until dusk, reading Tolstoy's "War and Peace." Autumn loured in cloudy skies and mourned in the gusty...
STREET SCENE?Ferment in a tenement...
...collegiate athletic contests to one game per year in each of the major sports is President A. Lawrence Lowell's conception of good sense, and it appears to be such good sense that one wonders why he has kept it to himself so long. College athletics are in a ferment now, if one look to the press, but if one centers one's eyes on the universities, one sees authorities that refuse to look beyond their money-bags, meanwhile mumbling that all is well...
...Catholic Centre Party, which holds a key position in the German Government coalition, draws its strength chiefly from voters in the Rhineland, and these were in a ferment of fear last week lest the "new" and "immoral" Young Plan conjured up by Dr. Schacht should give France the right to reoccupy the Rhineland in case Germany defaults on her Reparations payments...