Word: transients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wells has felt the necessity for a new approach to his rostrum, an impressive, unpoliced approach that will at once command unusual attention and leave him freer than ever to expatiate upon the human spectacle. In The Outline of History he had to deal dutifully with many matters of transient and undisputed consequence. Moreover, history is but the gradient leading up to Mr. Wells' deepest concern, the future of mankind after its scientific emancipation. In his pseudo-scientific novels, several of which he laid in that far future, he felt the cramp of plot and character relations. So while...
Loud plaudits, transient fame, and sometimes lasting wealth are deemed the typical rewards of champions. Men honor perhaps too often and too eagerly their strong, enduring or dexterous brethren. Yet this is not always so. Last week, during one sweltering London afternoon, a little man of 61, whose brown beard is turning white, set what is believed to be a world's record, yet reaped no plaudits and no pelf...
...pleased. Then the storm broke. Artists of many kinds who had gone to Santa Fe to make the old city their home, residents who had been attracted by its ancient beauty, rose in protest. "What will happen to our fine old town," they asked, "if you bring here a transient population half as large as that we now have?" This was not an isolated cry such as now and then rises in other towns. It was a tempest which echoed through the town's newspapers and received not little press support. Only to those who live in Santa...
...profound is the spiritual veneration of Italians for their quite literally "beloved Papa" (the Pope) that, where only the transient material world is concerned, a jest may be thus bandied between poet and Pope without creating the scandal which would ensue in Anglo-Saxon lands. During Holy Year (1925) carefree Latins were to be seen daily flinging banana skins and chocolate wrappers upon the floor of St. Peter's, and greeting the Pope when he appeared with just such excited squeals and shrieks as a large family of happy children bestow upon their temporal father...
...from the just balance, the true proportion here as they are in other questions of social benefit. One can but remind that the minutiae of no one or even several subjects should be allowed to obscure a complete and philosophical out took; that memory work should never consist of transient facts and should never outrun the capacity and training aimed at their utilization. The student should not be competled to stack his has in too overflowing forks-full...