Word: manifoldness
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...present era will be remarkable to future historians for its manifold expressions of an urge to unify human activities on a world-wide scale. This urge had taken clear form in men's minds by the opening of the 20th Century. Dreamers dreamed world Utopias. Statesmen fashioned a league and a court for the world's nations. In Germany and Russia, political reformations of the world were attempted. Scientists planned to blanket the earth with radio power waves from common world generators. Men flew around the world, proposed a world language, spun world-wide business networks...
Rumbling is a major sport, if there ever was one. We would, for example, and probably should, before the evening was over, give a considerable sum to go out and rumble for a little while now. It has manifold attributes among which is overemphasis, and its only drawback, so far as we can see, is the possibility of a long cool walk to Cambridge. But tonight, instead of rumbling along, starting quiet towns, we are staying in and rumbling typewriter keys. And, as some one has said, it isn't the heat, it's the humility...
...setting with all its manifold possibilities is worked into the story only so far as in necessary to give piquancy to the romance involved. The tale might be likened to a poplar with its clinging shoots, where it could have been made an oak with spreading branches. The teller has rather sought to show how marvellously romance, like a flag-pole, can cleave space than bow completely life can fulfill, clothe, and likewise protect itself, with fit and simple foliage...
...Commencement orations were reported yesterday, however, which emphasize a point deserving of more attention from the college man than it now receives. The manifold opportunities for the university graduate in one or the other of the branches of the Public Service are usually brushed aside in favor of some private enterprise. They should not be. The responsibilities of government now rest largely upon the stupid, the untrained, the men of ward mentality. Certain members of the present administration at Washington are eloquent testimony to this condition. Many men today graduate with a natural aptitude for the Public Service, only...
...nice adjustment of means to end, is not only the chief concern of business, but that, increasingly, business men are coming to look to the professional schools of business for its perfecting. There it can be studied, with the detachment of laboratory specialization--its history and its present manifold forces. And for the business research, as well as for business teaching, to which the Harvard Business School is making such great contributions, there are great possibilities of usefulness which will be developed in the coming years...