Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Youth Movement is a spontaneous manifestation of an old forgotten spirit. It is endeavoring to weave itself into the web of human society and to change some of its aims and ideals. Whether its members are right or wrong in their sentiments is not the prime consideration. The thing of most importance is that under the stimulating influences of the movement the young people are being led to take an interest in affairs of the day in a way which compares very favorably with the local college island on which the American student lives...
...seem to, not only among some undergraduates but among men long out of college who are so devilishly clever that they make on turn with relief to Sanford and Merton. The trouble with these superior, people is that out of the bowels of their own cleverness they spin a web in which hangs nothing but dreary, dessicated warnings to us not to be so devilish clever. When a man has reached the height where he can prove beyond a doubt that Meredith was a bore and Burke a soporific, he has also demonstrated to us common people why he will...
...bills that aim to provide for their welfare gather dust in Congressional Committee Cubby-holes. The most recent and important of these is the Rogers Bill which would substitute one Bureau of Veteran Re-establishment for the three present bureaus, each one of which is entangled in its own web of red-tape. But importance would appear to be a minor consideration in the deliberations of Congress...
Professor Coolidge's publication of the Austro-Hungarian secret treaties in English is of very great importance not only to historians but to all men who are interested in public and international affairs. From these documents it will be possible accurately to trace the development of that web of secret diplomacy which lay behind the activity of the Central Powers in precipitating the world war. We learn, for example, that Austria had been granted the right by Germany and Russia to annex Bosnia and Herzogovina as early as 1881, and this shows us why Russia was obliged to withdraw...