Word: arid
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...used aright, and if it is misused or if it causes the owner to be so puffed up with pride as to make him misestimate the relative values of things it becomes a harm and not a benefit. There are a few things less desirable than the arid cultivation, the learning and refinement which lead merely to that intellectual conceit which makes a man in a democratic community like ours hold himself aloof from his fellows and pride himself upon the weakness which he mistakes for supercilious strength...
Forum--"The Present Industrial Position of the U. S.," by Henry Gannett '69; "The Problem of a Pure Milk Supply," by D. H. D. Chapin '71; "Reclaiming the Arid Southwest," by R. M. Barker...