Word: metaphoric
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clear the writer of Saturday's communication aimed his criticism at the liberals in this University, particularly those who chided the authors of recent effusions on the subject of deported aliens. Has it occurred to the gentlemen that their metaphor may be inapplicable, that instead of being a class of people standing "on the fence," the liberals are steadily traversing the road of progress, while on one side the reactionaries flounder in the morass of outgrown institutions, and on the other the radicals flit along in pursuit of the elusive mirage of Utopia...