Word: gradualism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Waldorf-Astoria, indefatigable Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt touched on one of her newest enthusiasms. "I happened to read a book not long ago," said she, "a book which has some really interesting new suggestions. They are a little revolutionary. They may have to be adapted to the gradual thinking of big groups, but they are interesting. Now, as a matter of curiosity, I have talked of that book to different groups of people. Yesterday I talked of it to Mr. [Senator Guglielmo] Marconi. Now, Mr. Marconi has what I would describe as the inquiring youthful mind. I had spoken...
...indeed a military bearing, and as beguiling the tedium of his leisure hours with the games of the asylum. This may well be so. But, lacking as we must evidence of any positive nature, there seems more point to the view that von Hindenburg's collapse has been gradual, and is not yet consummate. There is certainly more hope in this view for the future of Europe and of the world. POLLUX...
...conclusions can be made, let us first examine the graph of indices. We find a gradual climb fluctuating throughout the centuries, and not sign of decrease that is large enough to be considered. Therefore, if the future continues as the past, war will not disappear from the face of the earth, but will continue regardless of efforts to stop it. Although war has been most undesirable, the steady pronounced increase continues; but desirability is one thing, and probability is another
...reflections on education: while he said nothing definite enough or specific enough to serve as a basis for predictions, he did reveal enough to cause fore-bodings. Throughout the address, references to scholarship, research, and similar subjects sounded a distinct overtone. Such allusions may point the way to a gradual, almost imperceptible shifting of academic emphasis from the teacher to the pure scholar, a shift which, if violent enough, might well affright the student. No one, to be sure, denies the value and inspiration inherent in the words of a great scholar and discoverer, or even in the more sight...
...extent the suggestions made in the Tutorial Report of 1931 drawn up by Vernon Munroe, Jr. and the Student Council. In fact, it is impossible to feel that he will fall in presenting a concrete and coordinate program, although the complexity of his task may make its unfolding a gradual thing, unheralded by premature flourishes of the trumpet, and without the unlovely embarrassment which they precede...