Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vagabond as he was musing on the meaning of those two crisp and noble words Sociological Jurisprudence--that the "signs wit hindications" are pointing to the need for speedy changes in American law. Much might be said of the sociological aspects of the recent much bruited crime wave--the Vagabond is not going to say anything about them. Much more might be said about the notorious post-war lapse in morality, one of whose many peculiarities evidences itself in the writing of indecent literature and bad verses--but the Holy See has recently come out with the statement that those...
...press continued to give prominence to suicides among U. S. school and college students, of whom 15 killed themselves last fortnight, bring the total for the so-called "wave" to 36 since New Year's (TIME, Feb. 7 et seq.). One enterprising news agency furnished an exclusive account of a girl student's suicide in Constantinople. A Cambridge University man slew himself. The opinion of almost anyone as to an underlying "cause" for the "wave," continued to make good copy...
...That a "wave" or "epidemic" really existed; that student suicides were actually more numerous in 1927 than in 1917 or 1907, and not simply made to seem so by the avidity with which newspapers smelled out the school affiliations, past and present, of every 1927 suicide under 30 years of age, remained undemonstrated. Evidence to support the "wave" theory was visible only in isolated cases. The self-hanging of Bruce Frederick Wilson, Princeton sophomore, closely followed the self-hanging of a Yale sophomore and the self-asphyxiation of a Princeton graduate student. In the wallet of Mclntire Harsha, University...
...term "Christian Art" was first used by Alexis Rio in the nineteenth century to denote all art manifestations in Christendom from early times to our own; the term "Early Christian Art" is reserved for art in the western Christian countries down to the Carolingian period, after which the Romanesque wave swept over Europe. In his study of early Christian architecture, therefore, Professor Conant will take the vagabond who chooses Robinson Hall to Rome and Ravenna, where the chief monuments of the period survive...
With a nod to right and another to left and a solemn wave of the hand to traffic, the blue-coated capsule of the law reigns supreme...