A richer public life will come from the breakdown of the safeguards of mediocrity and from the stressing of the legislative at the expense of the executive branch of the government.
Only since Mr. Harding became President has the breakdown of Congress been marked.
Since the breakdown of the negotiations with Poland, his troops had waged a fitful border war with varying success.
Twenty years of conjugal felicity had not been crowned with the desired offspring, and the Grand Prince, weary of waiting for the overdue answer to reiterated prayers, took steps to remedy the breakdown in the succession.
This alternative arrangement was a stand-by in case of breakdown of the steam pipes to these engines.
The engines were in duplicate to provide for the possibility of breakdown of one set.
They thought it strange, moreover, to hear Wilson speaking of the gradual breakdown of the delicate structure of international law.
The whole affair had lasted but a few moments, but she had been very near a breakdown that evening--nearer than she herself knew.
Of course, the completeness of her breakdown had been greatly aggravated by her own private unhappiness, and by the terrible trouble of her brother's total inability to stand up against his reverse of fortune.
The collapse of Graeco-Roman culture was rapid and complete, resembling the breakdown of the civilization of the Aegean Bronze age toward the close of the second millennium before the Christian era.
The gunner, his clothes oil-soaked, who has her breech apart pays no attention to the field of guns around him or the burst of a shell a hundred yards away, no more than the man with a motor breakdown pays to passing traffic.
I really wanted to rest, and meant to enjoy five days of repose; but I gave a lecture the first night, and then had a sort of breakdown and took to my bed.
Rural schools and the breakdown of complete isolation will probably in time eliminate this divergence.
After Elinor Mann's finalbreakdown and commitment, Father no longer announced his views with much positiveness.
Give his testimony the same weight, no more and no less, that you would if his breakdown had not happened; simply try to shut it out of your minds.
The final breakdown of the law of 1887 came, however, not from mere defects in procedure, but from the adverse construction placed by the Supreme Court of the United States upon its fundamental clauses, viz.
Barring a complete breakdown in the present impetus of research and discovery, radical change in the technology of water supply and water quality control appears to be extremely probable within the next few decades.
Daily experience teaches us how easily some people overstep the limits of normal fatigue, and in extreme cases even come to a nervous breakdown because nature did not protect them by the timely appearance of strong fatigue feelings.
Our Topanga series of scrapers and planes was numerically large enough and exemplified a sufficient degree of internal variation to warrant a breakdown into descriptive categories or types.
We attempt only a rough breakdown between blades and large points, either of which if hafted could serve the purpose of a knife.
Little explanation can be offered to this reverse trend other than it represents a breakdown of an older pattern as a result of a shift toward the mortar-pestle complex.
If the inefficient wife contributes her share to this form of family breakdown so also does the overefficient one.
When the man and the wife are both industrial failures we get the extremity of family breakdown to be found in records of "chronic non-support" cases.
The doctors feared that her breakdown would result in insanity, so they asked that her wishes be respected in not seeing the man's family.
But in the submission of the budget by the Secret Service to the Congress, they have a greater breakdown of their personnel setup.
There was undoubtedly a breakdown on security there in the basement.
With the physiological change in his constitution his desire to walk decreased, and the beginning of the breakdown began without either of us suspecting it.
It was at this sad time, and during my breakdown which followed, that Mr. Saltus gave fullest expression to the understanding, sympathetic and tender side of his nature.
In case of a breakdown on this flight I had forty-eight hours in which to make the necessary repairs and complete the test.
Few people, excepting the railway officials, connected the breakdownwith the Martians.
As it is, the comparatively mild method of the elementary school does not effect anything worse in such cases than the prevention of the development of the mind, which is one degree better than complete breakdown or insanity.
Those who are now pursuing a policy of desperation are unconsciously building their hopes on the breakdown which brought them to the top: they are avowedly making the hoped-for revolution in the West the central point of their system.
