Word: leaven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mind until these cherished tenets of theological metaphysics were held only in the background and with deepest reservations by their apostolic successors, until the science of orthodox apologetics had forsaken its metaphysical subtleties for the less tenuous claim of acting as a social cohesive and a moral leaven...
...individualism has been carried too far and has become not the right to maintain one's own ideas and customs among many but the habit of remaining oblivious to most other points of view and contemptuous of those that are known. The lump has become too great for the leaven...
...dead, had definitely come to stay in the world, and had a spirit behind it, embodied by such leaders as Lord Robert Cecil and Dr. Nansen of Norway, that is not the kind of spirit that either men or adverse circumstances can kill. It was interesting to see the leaven working day by day on such Americans as had come to Geneva with unfriendly or skeptical feelings toward the League. After a few days, I heard several conservative Republicans say that they now felt that America should cooperate to the fullest extent with the League, though it would perhaps...
...other college magazines. "The "Aristocrat" announces that "not with the eye of philosopher or critic, avoiding the quip and lesson of reformer, standing aside from bustle," it treads "the ways of antiquity," and it offers the modest hope that it may "calm the undergraduate mania for achievement with a leaven of whimsical humor...