Word: aimless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everything was progressing with the happy and aimless inevitability natural to such situations. A few vegetables, a few soft heads, it was the usual time had by all in the usual manner. But tragedy stalked from Billings to Stover. The law injected a sordid note when the first cop pulled the first tear bomb. What had been valor and pleasantry became stark and earnest and the Freshmen wished they had never left home...
...great part of the sectarian quarrels in Jerusalem have no foundation other than aimless religiosity, but there is in addition an element of genuine faith which is rare today. This quality, which has been largely lost in the evolution of religious toleration and scientific scepticism, is one which should not be completely abandoned. Although the world will-probably never return to the limited faith of the past, of which the disorder in Jerusalem is an expression, there must be some adjustment made to modern knowledge and a creed built upon...
...this little collaboration by members of the Prospect Union Association of Cambridge. The purpose of the volume as stated in the introduction is to be a directory of ways and means for using the leisure time of those unacquainted with Boston and its surroundings. Any student who has spent aimless Saturday afternoons and Sundays in Cambridge should find at least, one suggestion in this book to relieve his boredom...
...sick of driving teams for objective games or for the pleasure of Alumni; it may be he has seen the fallacy in this popular deification of a sport, but whatever the reason that prompted him to make this statement it is of far greater significance than most of the aimless rant on the evils of football...
Examinations, particularly English examinations, have come under considerable undergraduate fire recently at Harvard. The criticism has been definite and leveled at specific examples of offending question papers. In general the trend of the charges made against examiners is that they single out obscure minor points in the work, demand aimless memory ability, and the papers are absurdly out of proportion to the three hours alloted for the writing of the blue books...