Word: statically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...avenues to improvement opened up in this outstanding work are so well marked that Dr. Little's denunciation of the stagnation of college faculties and governing bodies arouses sympathetic agreement. It is obvious that the colleges are static and unprogressive, not because they do not know where to go, but because the present situation is too comfortable. The wealth of his examples showing the narrowness, prejudice, and unproductive conservatism of the institutions of higher learning as a whole amazes even those who are in close contact with the most clamorous evils...
Every year in education is a radical one; and the theory of education should never be static. Mark Twain said that February was an especially dangerous month in which to buy stocks, and that the other dangerous months were January and March--December inclusive. Similarly, one can never feel secure in any system of education, and the wise man always looks ahead for possible improvement...
...reckoning of Time was misleading ; that the age of man could not be accurately determined by the time given by the Astronomer Royal. Two individuals, he said, one firmly rooted to the earth, the other skipping from planet to planet, would not age at the same rate. While the static man was passing through 70 years of the Astronomer Royal's time the other, provided he traveled sufficiently fast, would, during the same period, have need for only 365 dinners, luncheons, breakfasts, the same number of eight-hour rest periods, and would to all appearances age but one year...
Such messages from station KFKB, Milford, Kan., offer many a farmer in the southwest relaxation after a hard day in the fields. Daily thousands listen to Dr. John Richard Brinkley, goat gland rejuvenation exponent, diagnose and prescribe for letter-writing patients over the radio. Occasionally static interferes, wags say, and causes the sick to get the wrong code number for their prescriptions, to treat themselves for dandruff when they are suffering from torpid liver...
...Odell, Lecturer on Geology, to complete his investigation into static metamorphism by studying the Shuswap terrain of British Columbia...