Word: transient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reported size of the country's floating population, the Senators got a fresh shock when Columbia University's Sociologist Nels Anderson told them that many of the nomads are girls. On the basis of a threeday, four-city survey made three weeks ago he estimates a transient U. S. population of some 165,000 boys and 100,000 girls under...
...this weakness in the Socialist program which is likely in the long run to hurt it more than the transient prejudice which the average man now feels toward its very name. Until the Socialists have bridged this gap between theory and practice and given assurance that control of business by experts can be brought about within the fabric of present system, they are not likely to make great progress against the planless but firmly entrenched older parties...
...ductless glands, its value to the body is not well understood. In unborn children its chief duty seems to be to help make red blood cells. Destroying worn-out and useless blood cells seems to be its prime function after birth. It may be cut out with apparently only transient inconvenience to the person. When ruptured it must come out quickly...
...would have winded East with a Crusade. Since he lived in the Nineteenth century he wrote about corruption in the High Court of Chancery, life in the London slums, death in the sweat shops. But he was a crusader at heart, and as such, his subjects have only a transient value. It is not what he said, but the way he said it, that men remember today...
...playwright, one George Bernard Shaw. But she stuck to Irving about as long as he needed her. Shaw admired her loyalty, never ceased to upbraid her wrongheadedness. Loud in his Brobdingnagian denunciations of Henry Irving, Shaw did not resent the fact that Ellen Terry had "many enduring friendships, some transient fancies, and five domestic partnerships of which two were not legalized...