Word: gradually
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Intellectual and social relations with Princeton we have never severed. The time seems ripe for a gradual recementing of athletic ties. The trouble concerned football alone, why not, then, renew our meetings in the other sports...
...they might lie, talking or drowsing through the winter evenings. The practice was regarded as an incentive to lawful matrimony; never was it considered in the least immoral. Later, however, the game was regarded as a trifle vulgar: from the latter part of the 18th Century it suffered a gradual decline...
...During the last year, the Yale Law School has been trying to evolve a more satisfactory system. We are not seeking a panacea, and realize that a change must be rather gradual, since most students dislike being used as guinea pigs, with the possibility of wrecking their imminent careers by an unsuccessful experiment...
...receives high wages if he attains competence. The lawyer, the merchant, even the thief, is re- compensed for the lean years of his schooling by large profits in his prime. The clergyman, also, must undergo an intensive theological training before he receives a degree; afterward his education is still gradual and hard. Then, even if he has reached rare proficiency, his financial recognition is far less than that of an able dentist, is comparable to that of a high-grade mechanic...
Referring to the outcome of the gradual industrial development of India, Mukerji held the view that in the end, neither India nor the world at large could gain. "In 50 years," said he, "foreign countries can not expect to compete with the mass production of such a large population, and as for the natives themselves, India is a tropical country; why should her people work indoors when they are healthier and happier working outdoors...