Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rumors are wildly flying again of a political union between Austria and Germany. Considering the difficulty with which Bismarck ejected Austria from the Confederation such talk is astounding. Gone is his empire; gone the House which he patiently raised to great power; and now his arch-enemy Austria reappears amid the fold from which he drove it with blood and iron. But the wheel of fate which has crushed the works of his hand has likewise crushed Austria. Stripped of its power, its land, its resources, the once proud state looks to a weak Germany as its last hope...
...were expected to pass the Johnson resolution, to receive the text of the agreement and then to begin tearing it to pieces. Another battle parallel, if not equal, to the contest which resulted in the rejection of the Versailles Treaty may be brewing. Of the old irreconcilables many are gone, never to return-Lodge, Knox, Brandegee. But some still remain. Hiram Johnson still remains, proud of being "progressive'' and "irreconcilable." Around him the Macedonian phalanx will gather. It is still to be seen whether the old phalanx has weakened, or whether its opponents have developed a defense which...
...busy upper classmen who have so little time to experiment on strange volumes. In his special field of study the student soon becomes competent to select authors for himself. In the departments of his "distribution" he is also possessed of some kind of compass. But unless his education has gone far beyond that of the average undergraduate all else is an uncharted sea. To have friendly access to a humanist who would pilot him past the shoals of literary rubbish and trash to the great books that are beacons of knowledge would be an opportunity of a lifetime...
Then matters calmed down on the floor. The speech no longer "existed." To be sure, many copies of the Congressional Record had been printed carrying it. Many press accounts had gone...
...Moreover, history teaches us that it is dangerous to rattle your weapons even verbally. We have known instances where in a similar atmosphere, and quite unexpected by all parties, rifles and cannon have gone off somehow of their own accord...