Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...send one team home heart-broken, "all in", disgraced,--at least in their own minds,--while the members of the other team mount pedestals to become objects for little short of idolatry. Yet just such a code of sport ethics is set up for us by the impassable gulf we create between winner and loser. With such a point-of-view appreciation of the game for its own sake is lost in accepting the finality of the score...
...questions Secretary Hoover when he declares that the Federal government is legally powerless to settle the coal strike; but the very hopelessness of any settlement save through government interference, emphasizes and great gulf between the strict constructionists of 1789 and the Constitution as interpreted today. Jefferson would turn in his grave if he could see the complex machinery of the national government he strove to hold in check. More and more is it becoming natural for every sort of interest when in difficulty to turn to the government for a solution. The finger of paternalism extended far more readily...
...Robert Woods, head of the South End House, praised the Phillips Brooks House workers for their activities during the year. "There is no such word as 'can't' in settlement work. When human relations are established the class gulf disappears". Mr. Woods described the work at the South End House. He spoke of the Habit Clinic in which an expert breaks bad habits in children. An excellent opportunity to study the nationality question is offered by the 24 nationalities among whom the South End House works. "There is a personal satisfaction in giving oneself to Social Service...
...Battle" (1915) and corresponded win Hauptmann, caring nothing for ridiculous accusations of being Pro-German so long as he continued to be true to himself. His latest novel, "Clerambault" (1920), is a record of the war's effects on the conscience of a man whirled into the war gulf...
...case, some underlying conditions must remain unknown until the "sands" are tapped by the drill. The success of operations based on geological predictions ranges all the way from 50 to 90 percent in certain oil producing States, to less than 5 percent in some parts of the Gulf Coast...