Word: stagnant
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...trial balloon rose rapidly through the stagnant political atmosphere of Washington, and at high altitudes struck currents that reveal a danger lest Mr. Harding's 1920 campaign pledges become an election issue in 1924, occasioning a rift in Republican ranks...
After two weeks struggle against the oppression of the capitalist authorities of an acquisitive Society, it is possible to publish the second brief installment of a journal which bids fair to rip the stagnant weeds of conservatism from the face of humanity. For obvious reasons the author still prefers to remain anonymous...
...Significance. It is a dark world that Mr. Train sees. He is not content with regarding the age as one of irreverence in the very young or stagnation in the very old. He grants freely that the young are irreverent and the old are stagnant. But he goes further. He sees this as an age of decadance, of sham, of sensuality, of materialism...
Such would, be the doctor's report on Mexico after the two years of the Obreton treatment. Internal disorders have been checked, leaving the patient sane, if weak. The economic condition is stagnant, but there are distinct signs of improvement, given proper nourishment. Outside complications of an international nature have remained in statu quo. Indications, on the whole, point to a gradual but complete recovery...
...vantage in the real world of affairs, has seen fit to criticize not only the book but the author as being under the influence of the "academic scholar" point of view. Not content with this rebuke he proceeds to the startling generality that Harvard intellectually is in the stagnant backwaters. "Some who have their doubts", says he, "as they look upon the fresh waters flowing by their college, doors, may remember that a professorship at Harvard is the academic kingdom of heaven for all those who labor with rod and stylus . . . The laurel of respectability will be laid on this...