Word: thrusting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Luckily or unluckily the average newly-hatched college graduate finds what serves for a purpose, temporarily at least, thrust at him on the same terms which faced the milleniumite stage director, the ultimatum of "work or starve". His first job and his hardest is the job of finding a job which he can develop and which will develop him. Until he succeeds, his purpose will be lost to sight, and the vision of a kingdom round the corner dance instead before his eyes...
...home and in the field. The policy of isolation, or "friendly aloofness" as it has been characterized, which carried the Administration into office has gone by the board and nothing definite has taken its place. The Democratic skirmishers can find an entering wedge with a modified "League of Nations" thrust, which is gathering increasing impetus with the turning of American interests to Europe...
Such is Europe's condition on this fourth anniversary of the Armistice, while America celebrates an ordinary business day merely urged by proclamations to think of its true significance. Few will, even when its meaning is thrust upon them by the guns this afternoon...
...place. A college can not do its best work if it counts among its students any considerable proportion of mental cripples, whether they be cripples by birth or by acquisition. Unfortunately there are both kinds here--and, more unfortunately still, the tutoring schools are doing their best forcibly to thrust this state of mental incapacity upon the rest. And it is due to this fact that the present situation exists: where the college wants tutors--must have them--, wants more capable assistants--must have them; but does not find within the ranks of its own graduates a sufficient number...
...carries about with him "a permanently troubled conscience." The phrase lives in his face. It is not the face of a man at peace with himself. If he has peace of mind it is a Peace of Versailles. . . . He has the look of one whose head has long been thrust out of a window gloomily expecting an accident to happen at the street corner. And General Bramwell Booth, the hard headed practical idealist, the fanatic possessed with such an unpopular loathing for sin, "listens with the whole of his attention strung up to its highest pitch, his eyes wide open...