Word: swing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...major significance except to Pennsylvania, of Representative Vare's surprising triumph is the degree to which it serves as a national political barometer. A growing sense of opposition to Administration policies and a marked swing of feeling against Prohibition have both been read into the result. It is true that the winner is a minority victor and that consequently too great importance may be attached to his triumph. On the other hand, the result is sufficiently surprising to provide copy for political dopesters for some time to come...
...outcry of the malcontents is unanswered. The Democratic leaders are not great enough to forego a small profit for a chance of a greater, to swing a united party behind them into the battle line and lay the fortunes of their party upon the lap of the gods. They have no great benefactor of mankind to teach us new dissatisfactions?the stuff of which our issues are made...
...level of mediocrity; a level, moreover, to which brilliance must lower itself that dullness may prosper. These skeptics have their plausable case. Yet it may truly be said that society is confronted with a condition and not a theory. Democracy is in vogue; universal education in full swing. The improvements to be made must begin with the obvious faults of operation, the obvious misconceptions of education. Only thus can reform fall to be quixotic...
...steadily, with the measured pace of an ancient pendulum. Half way round to the right, then, back a full turn to the left, a never ceasing motion. Visitors that it is bound to slow up and finally watch it with fascination, expecting stop, but the basket continues to swing, just as it has done for the last six months...
Twelve gates admit respectable pedestrians to the cloistered precincts of the Yard, and day and night eleven of the twelve stand open, to all appearances guarded with no extraordinary rigor. Not so the twelfth. Religiously the watchdogs of the college swing shut at stroke of six the iron portals that front the Holden Chapel between Lionel and Mower Halls, and make them fast for the night with monolithic chain and padlock...