Word: slough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elsewhere he continues: "Our job is to change all that. Somehow or other, in the course of centuries we've got to slough off the philosophy which has led us down the wrong trail... War is an inevitable and comparatively insignificant incident resulting from our false hypothesis of conduct:" This is what the "conchy" brother and all the rest of his kind were saying before the fight began, and it is an opinion that the world in general is just beginning to sceptically examine. In a word it is the verdict against nationalism and its attendant evils of patriotism...
...several times and show the results to your parents. Very likely they will be able to corroborate many a thought as reflecting something that happened to you at a very early age, 6 mos. even. The explanation, according to Psychologist E. Pickworth Farrow, is that the mind tends to slough off recent memories, going back to earlier and earlier ones, following expressions of the egotistic or self-preservative group of instincts. He offered the experiment as proof and correction of certain Freudian doctrines. Huxley. Professor Julian Sorell Huxley, King's College, London, brother of very-cynical-about-nothing...
...reserved for academic theses in the Department of English, she attempts to find in modern literature an accurate diagnosis of present ills. Such a study first reveals son, Eugena O'Neil, and H. L. Mencken When recovered from these flery charges of hypocrisy, the investigator plunges into a drab slough of respectability in which six-cylindered sedans protect bourgeosie from the necessity of thought. In this literary domain, preempted by Sinclair Lewis, murky morals and stupid minds promenade in clean linen...
...necessity for a required philosophy course is now met. Those students who wander uncertainly in the slough between religion and science may find assistance in Phil. 6a and 6b. Philosophy of Religion; or Phil. 7a. The Philosophic Basis of Religion; or Phil. 2, Philosophy and History of Religion; or Phil. 4a, Ethical Systems which makes "a comprehensive study. . . .of Christianity and modern materialism." Announced for next year is Phil. B, Types of Religion. "The purpose of this course is . . .to aid students in working out a tenable view of the world for themselves...
...survive the evils of reconstruction. The last twenty-five years have, however, threatened to destroy the few remaining vestiges of this life. The rising tide of commercial prosperity in which all classes shared and the recent influx of speculating northerners suggested the possibility of this region becoming a veritable slough of Babbittry, rivaling even the Middle West in wide-spread vulgarity. Such a condition seemed imminent in the absence of an effective counteracting influence...