Word: decayed
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...easy enough to explain the Conservative majority in the English Parliament in terms of Russian treaties, economic policies, and uncontested seats, but the decay of liberalism is something which cannot be explained away. In the previous general election, in the ensuing by-elections, and in the election of this week, the Liberal party has suffered an almost continuous succession of defeats. It now controls seven per cent of the seats in Parliament...
...found no peace..Strange forebodings fill the air, portent of change and great upheaval. As, in its age-old way, in solitary musings, it sought a moment's observation of the Square, where it was wont to shake its head in self-approbation at the indications of decay the times give forth what glaring new construction stood there, thrown up like a mushroom in a day, to bar the time-worn path...
...religious conflict in England differs totally from the U. S. squabbles over elementary science. English clergymen are amazed when they hear that some Americans object, for example, to the evolutionary theory. They are incredulous when told that U. S. divines predict bodily resurrection despite chemical demonstration of the decay and dissolution of flesh. Englishmen overrode these difficulties 40 years ago. Now their troubles are chiefly two. First, economic: Can one Christian child of God eat caviar when another eats nothing? Second, organic: Is there one true Church? If so, where is it? Who is it? What...
Weather-worn hulks lying in profitless decay...
...great stories of the Trojan War was the wooden horse. One of the best stories of the World War was the wooden ships. Now their weather-worn hulks are lying in profitless decay...