Word: gropingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like so many scalping Comanches, are taking their bi-yearly toll. Concluding winter athletics are vieing desperately with commencing spring activities. Class elections are pitting friend against friend, while honor, influence, and politics set a dizzy pace. Seniors are searching wearily for a life-long job, and many others grope for a summer's employment--which only causes a variety of muddy footsteps in the basement of University Hall. House dances are flitting momentarily across the weekend horizon, glowing like meteors for a brief instant before expiring with a dull thud. Employer and employee, like two antlered moose, have clashed...
...rest. They find their places and the atmosphere gradually, unnoticeably, has meanwhile through some magic grown normal and livable. They get used to Harvard--their New room. And the Vagabond guesses that pretty soon he will get used to his New room, too. Till then he, too, will just grope hopefully for the light...
...community, for as each community becomes more integrated, the need for the knowledge gained by its youth increases. With the age of social well-being on the horizon, educators must soon recognize the problem of misused education, and instead of leaving the student on the threshold of life to grope for his niche, they should point out the advantages of applying his training in his own community. It is time for a new Horace Greeley to rise and shout, Go Home, Young...
...townspeople have died. The dead sit rigidly on camp chairs, while close at hand a mass of huddled wet umbrellas evoke a funeral. The dead girl comes to join the other dead. But she still yearns for the living. Permitted to return among them, she sees how blindly they grope through life, comes back to the cemetery eager to forget. Living people, Wilder seems to say, miss most of experience; only the dead get down to essences. But this moral needs no such circuitous statement, should not be interwoven with all the mysticism and high-flown speculation that Wilder insists...
Significance. All signs pointed to a much deeper European game than simple scotching of "pirates" in the Mediterranean, a game in which Chamberlain and Mussolini are attempting to grope toward mutual understanding, perhaps on the lines of the Four-Power Pact by which Britain, France, Italy and Germany agreed some years ago to cooperate for the peace of the world (TIME, June 19, 1933, et ante). Dormant though it has lain, this Pact still exists, is one of the boojums with which Stalin frightens Russians from time to time, pointing to it as a "proof" that there is a Capitalist...