Word: disarray
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although both he and Miss Thompson were oppressed by the feeling of being constantly spied upon, and although each tried the experiment of leaving private papers in calculated disarray around their hotel rooms, neither was ever able to detect the slightest tampering with their documentary bait...
Then in 1882 Leo XIII (who, while he was papal nuncio in Brussels, had noted the young priest), conceived the idea of establishing a chair of philosophy in the University of Louvain to counter-balance the disarray of ideas prevalent among its students. For this professorship, all praise and recommendations centred in the studious priest, Desiré-Joseph Mercier. To Rome he went; conferred with many, including Pope Leo himself; outlined a Thomist program of scholastic philosophy with such clearness and understanding that he won quick approval. At Louvain adherents of the new professor feared he might see too many...