Word: stagnant
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...beliefs of many, the war proved that a certain amount of unified control was beneficial to the railroads. But more fundamental than any plan of reorganization, and a necessary preliminary to such a plan, is an adjustment of the rate difficulty. As long as Boston's port is stagnant, a large source of business for New England's railroads remains unproductive. It has been pointed out especially that Boston is the natural outlet for a large share of the Canadian trade. But this trade, as well as most of that from other sources, is being diverted from Boston on account...
...certainly is not to the interest of England to allow a hostile power in Ireland. And if she did need these weapons, it is fallacious to say that she could not support them. It is only British domination that has kept down Irish economic prosperity. Ireland has been kept stagnant economically because England feared her rivalry. History shows that when England's hand has been removed Ireland has prospered, as under the Grattan Parliament in the 19th century...
...point of ability, in point of experience, in point of capacity to deal comprehensively with the new problems of reconstruction, Mr. Hoover towers above all the candidates who have been brought into the contest. There are no arguments against him except the arguments that are spawned out of the stagnant waters of professional politics. For itself, The World does not care whether Mr. Hoover calls himself a Democrat or a Republican or a Progressive or an Independent. He is the kind of man that ought to be President of the United States, and he is the man The World intends...
...Radcliffe." Such a prospectus is comprehensive, pretentious, and difficult of fulfillment, but shows the sort of boundless ambition that deserves laudation. Certainly their opportunity is golden, their well advertised inauguration propitious, but it remains to be seen if they can bring back the breath of life to the stagnant literary life of the undergraduate and lift again the torch dropped from the grasp of the dying Monthly...
...opinion is strong on our side of the world that all interests in England have been subordinated to the great interest of winning the war. We are apt to picture intellectual life as stagnant there, while the great universities stand darkened at night against the ravages of piratical "Zeps" and their students are fighting in France...