Word: languishes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chamber of Deputies has debated the Law Faculty incidents, and has ended with a vote of confidence. That is the right note to strike--confidence. Somehow one feels sure that the students of the Sorbonne will not languish long without a dean...
...prospered, but with the arrival of hard times, its gullibility and generosity in lending drew it quickly to its inevitable end,--bankruptcy. For the last two or three years it has been of no use at all in capitalizing the Philippines' many resources, but has managed only to languish along in a state of coma and parasitic inactivity...
...present constituted, cuts rather a sorry figure. The service is tolerably permanent for first-rate men, but neither the promotion possibilities nor the salaries are particularly attractive. As to promotion, the practice has been to allow a good man to work up to first secretary and let him languish there. The natural promotion thence would be to Ambassador or Minister. But these places have far too often been reserved for political friends of the Administration in power. Frequently, the appointees, especially in the last few years, have been most unfitted for their position either by character, education or experience. This...