Word: welter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...self education, and that to force a boy, beyond a certain point, to remain in school and do set tasks in which he takes no interest may stultify his mind and fret his character." This attitude is a revival of humanism and is a ray of light in a welter of academicians whose pedagogical zeal has overruled their sanity. When its truth is realized one may look for a disentanglement of the educational problem which especially in America, is growing dangerously complex...
...welter flash raucous snatches of prairie humor, vivid actions, scatterbrained flights of self-pitying, self-despising, pagan philosophy. The father looms as a monument of malicious, brooding egotism. Brother Tom is a semi-imbecile with a bulbous head, liquid eyes and great sensitivity; he married a Danish farm wench and went to Mexico City to found a socialist commonwealth...
...custom of a monthly magazine called The Mailbag (monthly; published in Cleveland; slogan, "All about direct-mail-advertising") to comment upon or reproduce advertisements which, in the Mailbag's judgement, have emitted a definite sparkle in the thick welter of advertisements-blatant and humble, proud and straining, prosaic and hysterico-lyrical-that fill the public prints. Lately, the Mailbag found a gem. It was in the American Mercury and it advertised that melange of outgrown modes and manners, The Mauve Decade by Thomas Beer (TIME, July 5, BOOKS), not only in the curlicued typefaces of 30 years...
...beauty spot of New Jersey, clad in fat trees and voluptuous clover on a still, close night last week . . . now lies prostrated, ravished, wrecked, shivered, torn, blasted. As if razed by ten years' surging warfare, the fields and villages nearby Lake Denmark, shrouded in grey gunpowder dust, welter in the July heat, pocked and gashed by a terrific bombardment...
...advancing. Industry grew. The bourgeoisie were busy and comfortable. Then biology came upon the scene, the idea of evolution. Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), by profession an engineer, a lynx-eyed observer with little "book learning" but a wonderfully retentive, orderly mind, was just the man to synthesize the welter of facts pouring in on all sides. He undertook to demonstrate the principle of evolution working through all the forms of thought in Francis Bacon's "province." His theory often outran his data but in the main he preserved for philosophy its touch with things practical. Friedrich Nietzsche...