Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editorial in question, "Unrest at the Universities," continues to say, that when a teacher of a university becomes involved in a labor or political quarrel, he "brings the university into the limelight with himself", and publicity presents himself as an "agitator...
...Bishop Ryan has been a restless Rector. . . . Bishop Ryan's unrest was in no small measure due to the fact that the fields of thought closest to the lives of our people-philosophy, psychology, sociology-seemed most alien to Catholic influence...
...Liberty, originally a mechanics' society, urging demonstrations, boycotts, violence, to force changes in British laws that blocked colonial enterprise. Although concessions were granted in 1770, wealthy merchants were not won over to the idea of independence, preferred the handicaps of British rule to the dangers of widespread unrest for which the mechanics were responsible. Consequently, "the middle class radicals, among them Samuel Adams, deliberately excluded mechanics from the revolutionary councils and destroyed the Sons of Liberty." Yet their achievement was progressive despite such double-dealing: "Untiringly and systematically, with a rare understanding of revolutionary strategy and tactics, the middle...
...tell his admiring students what has happened to the U. S. in the last two decades: "There has been an obvious retrogression.... In circumstances where loyalty to high idealism was imperative, we as individuals and as a people have compromised with expediency ... and amid the confusion resulting from unrest of the spirit we have sought surcease from concern in new dissipations and in more self-indulgence...
Long ago the idea took root that Earth's face is squeezed and wrinkled by the contraction of cooling, but this is no longer regarded as the sole cause of unrest. A half-century ago. Dr. Watts recalled, Suess of Austria realized from geological evidence that the sea had washed back & forth on the continents in great longtime pulses, but he could not explain the underlying mechanism. After radioactivity was discovered, Joly of England and others hit on the concept of thermal pulsation: radioactivity in the solid, or nearly solid, sub-crust of Earth causes heat to be stored...