Word: restlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...universities' teaching staffs, is warning against tendencies which are increasingly apparent in our higher educational institutions, but for which no obvious remedy has yet been discovered. The great increase in the size of the undergraduate body, the proliferation of all kinds of different courses and subjects to meet the restless needs of the time, the appearance of vast and expensive educational "plant," the semi-industrialization of athletics, the development of great endowment funds and the necessity for endowment "drives" to maintain and expand them, and, finally, the replacement of the nineteenth-century college president by the business executive competent...
Daughter of a rich California family, Caroline was early made a globetrotter by her restless mother. In China she met Maggie, also from the U. S., and became her bosom friend. When Maggie married dashing Buck Dawson, British naval officer, Caroline followed her friend to England. While she watched the Dawsons' stormy married life Caroline took old Aristocrat Hugo as her fatherly lover. When she accidentally had a baby and Hugo's old wife died he wanted to do the right thing by her. To prevent him she married worthless Jock, gentleman rider and latent cad. He left...
...unusually restless, talkative throng of members in the National Association of Audubon Societies filed into a large room at the American Museum of Natural History last week for their 26th annual meeting. Instead of telling each other about the last oriole they had seen or how their new wren-houses were working out, they whispered over the backs of their chairs like politicians. They all knew that the policies of their president, Thomas Gilbert Pearson, were to be challenged by a small group of discontented members who had charged him with too great a friendship for wealthy sportsmen, too little...
...humdrum provincials a taste of the outside world that was theirs before marriage tied their existance down to a limited routine. The boy is a somewhat typical English lady as lady novelists conceive him to be, and as, indeed, he may in truth be. He is charming and his restless spirit brings to life the suppressed longings of the women he meets. His sister, who is married but does not live with her husband, is the female counterpart of Hugh. She effects men the way her brother does women...
Booth Tarkington has never been a socially weighty writer, but his early books had a kind of restless threat in them. His sympathies were evidently with the young man who rebels against the machinery of money. As Tarkington grew older his sympathy with rebels thinned, mellowed or changed into a kind of bantering, gentle satire that implied less of particular criticism than of general tolerance. But in his latest book the criticism is less implied, more explicit, than ever before; his satire less tolerant, less gentle...