Word: momently
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...genius of the Yard, its customary meditations on the times that were and are no more have because short; and it has found no peace..Strange forebodings fill the air, portent of change and great upheaval. As, in its age-old way, in solitary musings, it sought a moment's observation of the Square, where it was wont to shake its head in self-approbation at the indications of decay the times give forth what glaring new construction stood there, thrown up like a mushroom in a day, to bar the time-worn path...
Although Mr. Converse was not himself a graduate of the University, he came from distinguished New England ancestry and many of his fore fathers were graduates of the College. He had prepared for Harvard but was prevented at the last moment from entering...
...believed that a new era is at hand, in which traditional religion is breaking through its hard chrysalis of dogma and coming forth a changing, living faith in harmony with a changing, living world. For him, dogmas can not contain it. Creeds may fit it for the moment, but for a moment only. The aspirations of the new man rise higher; knowledge increases; thought advanced through an ever broadening vista: with the result that dogma and creed have ceased to express adequately for the new generation what they were fully capable of expressing for the old. Dr. Fosdick takes...
...recent London conference, the allies of today present a united front and a harmony of purpose that were lacking in the peace attempts of a century ago. Except in the case of Russia, the nations of today are favored in their efforts by comparative internal stability. The moment is especially opportune, since the Dawes Plan, now in operation, promises the restoration of German credit necessary to new stability in that country. In addition to these obvious advantages of the present moment, the nations have at their disposal the machinery of the League of Nations, which has already been tried...
...blanket charge that the control exercised on our educational institutions by "big business" is always pernicious. But he proclaims a truth when he contends that such control leaves a Damoclean sword forever over the head of liberalism in our colleges. The financier-educators may cut the thread at any moment...