Word: sways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is an old verse somewhere, "How are the mighty fallen!" which may well apply to the Classics. Four hundred years they held complete sway over literature and scholarship. Not to know Greek was to lack culture, not to read Latin was to be partially illiterate. Yet today it is a confession, calling for excuses and apologies, to admit concentration in the Classics. One feels almost ashamed to be seen leaving a Greek course, the old classical library has fallen into the hands of the Business School, and only one table has been saved from the ruin for those...
...socialists in Germany would refuse to support their Government and thus prevent war; but when the war came, that did not happen. In some cases, as in Alsace-Lorraine for example, the people, or many of them, did not consider that they belonged to the country that held sway over them; but that is another question, the question to what nation patriotism...
...some years, the result is doubtful and the expense certain. He may be obliged to tell them also that their view of their rights is exaggerated, and that they have not been wronged to the extent that they have imagined. Wrath has time to cool, common sense regains its sway, and if the outside is represented by a good lawyer the two together can adjust the dispute and save their clients time, strength and money...
...natural resources has been one of conservation; particularly in so far as our timberland is concerned. Mr. Roosevelt perceived, with his accustomed far-sightedness, that the day was coming when it would be no longer possible to misuse our natural products with the carelessness and wastefulness which then held sway. The bills put through under his administration have been practically the only check on the destruction of our forests...
...stage of the Princess Theatre in New York, and the play thus characterized should have a small, well-trained chorus, catchy tunes, and the principals must take the audience "into their confidence." "Oui Madame" fulfills these conditions and offers a pleasant contrast to the showy, elaborate plays which hold sway on the more spacious stages. The chorus consists of but six girls, augmented on occasions by other members of the company, but these six make up in dancing ability and good looks for what "isn't there" in pony ballets and three-row choruses...