Word: stagnant
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...Count de Chantelaur's mind has become stagnant and weary of his quiet married life in his castle, and he dreams longingly of those bachelor days,-society, the races, and the club. A friend suggests that he get himself elected to the national legislature. This thought appealed to the Count, but he shied at the idea of the cares and troubles of the political campaign...
...Wickersham, Hughes, and the visiting Lord Birkenhead and Dr. E. S. Zeballos of Argentina. John W. Davis, President, opened the ceremonies with an orthodox defense of the Supreme Court. He made obvious reference to a recent article by Frank I. Cobb (Editor of The New York World) on Our Stagnant Democracy* and denied that the Supreme Court closed the avenues of social progress. Mr. Associate Justice Pierce Butler, who lives in St. Paul, animadverted upon the disuses of radicalism in colleges. This reference was taken to be a defense of himself. (When President Harding elevated him to the Supreme Court...
...student a finishing school, for the administration a business establishment, for the ordinary teacher a routine, for the investigator a means for supporting his researches, and for American life, as a whole, in relation to the real forces of the age, a tranquil and almost stagnant backwater...
...pushed by the competition of another faith. The Roman Catholic Church reigns supreme in Colombia, and when the young priest Manuel Ferrando, of the Capuchin Order, was sent from Rome in 1898 to work for the Società Propaganda Fides, he may have found Colombia religiously stagnant. Whatever may have been the cause, he left the Roman Catholic Church in 1900, and went to Ponce, Porto Rico, where he established a communal agricultural mission, and founded the " Church of Jesus." In the years that followed he became attracted to the Protestant Episcopal missions on the Island...
...Harvard 6, Comrade Ratsky called my attention to a part of the bench before him. Here he had smoothed a place with his knife and had inscribed deep, heavily-pencilled lines: "All of you here are but a herd of garbage swilling pigs. You shall rot in your stagnant tracks...