Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course the apparently minor matter of how sensible it is for a mass of grown and theoretically intelligent inhabitants to mill around a pair of white sticks, no longer seems to be one of importance. It is well known that Harvard students constitute a distinct minority in the weekly storming of the Bastille, but the fact that any are there at all would seem to indicate that some modification of the admission rules might be desirable...
Almost two quarters passed of play before the sky could no longer hold back its tears. They were first sobs, blown against the cheek by the wind. Small, individual parts of the mass buttoned coats, donned cellophane slickers, threw newspapers over their heads. The sobs became hysterical weeping, and water slashed upon the stands and upon twenty-two men playing like intent children with a pigskin...
These Legionnaires are no longer boys, and it would appear that we could expect that they would put away childish things-or pay the penalty. A drunken bum sleeping it off in a hotel lobby or along the streets is still a drunken...
Relinquished by Gropius in 1928, the Bauhaus was directed successively by Functionalist Hannes Meyer and by Mies van der Rohe, a German architect famed for the elegance he has added to functionalism. In 1932 the school in Dessau had to be closed because an unfriendly Nazi Government would no longer support it. By that time, however, the designs of Bauhaus workmen had permeated German industry, their liberated minds had produced two sound inventions now familiar in Europe and the U. S.: indirect lighting, tubular furniture...
...confusion and wasted time in the national economy. The Wagner Act and the Social Security Act, also, are poorly-drafted laws which must be done over if they are to be made workable. But remodeling takes time--and it would have been much more efficient to take a little longer and do a thorough job in the first place. This entails above all, as Mr. Landon succinctly pointed out, plugging up potential loopholes by lending an ear to the opponents of social legislation and re-drafting the parts of the laws which can be legitimately criticized before these weaknesses...