Word: hydra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that hydra-headed monster raise its head among us, redblooded, fighting Americans, born and bred descendants of Colonial and Revolutionary pioneer ancestors. There is no pacifism in our patriotic hearts...
...pitiful plight in which England finds herself. In the midst of such vigor Malthus offers no, remedy. There are possibilities in Swift's old cure for the starvation in Ireland. And yet it is only too probable that the English population would continue to recreate itself like the hydra-headed monster. To adopt the fatalistic attitude and let nature take its course would doubtless lead in a short time to such swarms that all Britain would be a vast human sardine-can. Yet there is a gleam of hope like the dawn on far off hills. Before quarters become...
...romance of the sea still lingers, in spite of steam and wireless. Mariners and fictioneers, between them, have kept alive the tradition that such natural monstrosities do exist. From the Hydra down, through Pliny's dragon which the army of Regulus besieged, and the great beast that Beowulf conquered in a battle to the death, famous stories have grown up around "facts" that science denies. The "sea-worm" was a very real object to the northern sailors, and it has flavored all the old literature of the ocean...
...secondary in importance, if colleges gave up the ambition to spatter their catalogues of faculties with doctor's titles, the present commercializing of the degree would stop. Unless some method of prevention is adopted, and adopted soon, by the American universities of high standing, the abuse will prove hydra-headed with the founding of each new institution, and like the hydra will be almost impossible to kill...
England is finding trouble with her possessions a sort of hydra; no sooner does she cut off one head of rebellion than another rises, halfway across the world. The worst difficulty she has to cope with at present seems to be centered in India, where the Commander-in-Chief has admitted that the "garrison is none too large" and that England's "ability to keep order may be tested at any time...