Word: decayed
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...that that study is peculiarly fitted to develop one indispensable habit of thought, one important method of approach to most classes of questions. It inculcates what is sometimes called the "genetic" point of view. It teaches us that almost nothing here below is fixed and static; that growth and decay, change and adjustment are as much the rule in the political, social, and intellectual world as in the physical and biological; and by studying all things as in process of "becoming", by emphasizing the ideas of development, continuity with the past, cause and effect, and the interplay of many different...
...historic and beautiful Palace of Versailles is in a state of decay and the marvelous fountains are breaking down...
...gangrenous decay...
...College of William and Mary. Virginia, a recent lecturer on representative government compared the present day United States to classical Greece in the age of the decay. He declared that George Washington, alive today, would receive less attention than JackDempsey; that all of us, crazed by novelty and sensation, are undervaluing the things worth while in overestimating non-essentials...
...lawlessness, the sensationalism, and the theatricality of the present may not be encouraging, but they are not evidences of national decay. The world is still shaky from the effects of the war; but it certainly is not standing on its head. It does not help in the recovery to call up all the symptoms of temporary relapse. As the Hooster farmer remarked to his assistant on the two man saw, "I don't mind you're riding on it, Jim, but I wish you wouldn't drag your feet...