Word: restlessly
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Anyone who attempts to present a faithful impression of Alexander Agassiz's life is confronted with unusual difficulties, for his versatile and restless energy covered a very extraordinarily wide field and his personality was so large that we are hampered in our view of him by our own limitations. The morphologist considers his earlier work more important; the geologist, that his reputation rests chiefly on his extensive investigations of coral reefs; the zoologist remembers his vast collection of marine life, gathered in a dozen extended voyages widely scattered over the surface of the globe, and to still others, he appears...
...British government, as represented by Bonar Law, realizes that most Americans will take a "reasonable view" of all such propaganda. But the British government is becoming justifiably restless under the continued succession of insults and hostility from this side of the Atlantic. Nor will American, "reasonableness" sit idly by much longer. Those who would make of this country a "Greater Ireland" would do well to observe the signs of the times...
...give a moderate alarm." Business interests in the East are demanding release from the heavy tax burdens imposed by the present government, the cry of the West-especially the farmers is "Down with the House of Wilson," and even in the South, the solid South, people are restless, even riotous, under the oppressive economic conditions...
...situation that may at any time develop into another and far more serious strike. More than seven months ago the Administration promised relief to the switchmen and can shopmen through the immediate reduction of the cost of living. But the cost of living has steadily advanced, and the restless discontent of the men has increased as they have watched the garment workers, coal miners and other classes receive substantial increases in wages. The Federal Board, provided for by the Esch-Cummings Act two months ago, was not even appointed until the country was in the grip of the outlaw strike...
...human beings and travellers on the same road which he himself once trod. The results are disastrous. In consequence of this assumption of an inacessible intellectual and social plane, the scholarship of the professor is naturally looked upon as senseless pedantry, while the enforcement of discipline on his consequently restless students comes to be regarded as pure callousness...