Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indifference" is a word no longer able to bear the strain put upon it, but the Harvard man's lack of interest in the foibles of his neighbors is traditional and accurate. As there is no uniformity in manners, so there is no catholicity in taste. If a Denver student dunks his doughnut in his coffee back home he should by all means dive in to his wrist at the Union breakfasts. If one from Pass Christian likes to hang blankets over his fireplace and sing "Empty Saddles" in the shower, all the frowns of an Eastern roommate should...
...circumstances let her have access to raw materials (TIME, Sept. 23, 1935). This sop the present British Foreign Secretary, Captain Anthony Eden, still keeps talking about from time to time. Meanwhile Sam Hoare has become First Lord to make the British Admiralty so strong that London will no longer have to soft-soap Berlin. Last week the distinctly pro soft-soap Times of London almost lost patience on reading the Nürnberg Proclamation, grumbled: "Germany, after all, appealed to the sword in 1914, and as a consequence lost her colonies...
...Presidential campaign, Liberty was almost a house organ for Nominee Franklin Roosevelt. That year 17 Roosevelt articles appeared in Liberty, culminating in a post-election Rooseveltian "message to the public" called The Election-An Interpretation. This year Publisher Macfadden, who no longer approves of Contributor Roosevelt's policies, came forward in his own person as a Republican possibility, announced with no false modesty that, if elected, he would annul "fool laws," put down "racketeers." Before the Cleveland Convention in June, Candidate Macfadden was briefly touted by friends, including Novelist Thomas Dixon. Depth of Mr. Macfadden's political thinking...
...rehouse and to help its poorer citizens." After picturing stables that would tax the strength of a dozen Hercules, they end their book with a vague reference to "preachers and social workers" who entered the wilderness of Gorbols, improved conditions so much that desperadoes like Johnnie Stark could no longer flourish there...
...origin endowments for the prolonged study of special used professional faculties by men of riper age . . . This was the theory of the university in the Middle Ages and the design of the collegiate foundations in their origin. Time and circumstances have brought about a total change. The colleges no longer promote the researches of science, or direct professional study . . . Elementary teaching of youths under twenty-two is now the only function performed by the university, and almost the only object of college endowments. Colleges were homes for the life-study of the highest and most abstruse parts of knowledge. They...