Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reflections upon Harvard itself are many and interesting. Awkward expression, cloudy thinking, green sentimentalism, all make their appearance as is natural in any group of Freshman compositions. Yet however darkly, many of the Freshmen seem already to have glimpsed the realities of Harvard. Harvard indifference, they discover, has its strong justification; disregard of the freshwater puerilities of hazing and class customs, is founded upon good sense; professors and faculty advisers, they find to their apparent surprise, are not bewhiskered pedants but friendly and inspiring gentlemen...
Banquet followed banquet. So many Poles rushed to make him welcome that diplomatic conversation was all but impossible. It was apparent that the Poles were intent upon drowning awkward questions about security pacts in toasts to their guest's health...
Northwestern pried open its season and South Dakota's line, in a somewhat awkward game...
Another revolution in Yale life is hinted at by Dean Jones, namely, the destruction of the "fence" on the Campus. Changes in the walks and roads of the Campus have left the fence in an awkward situation, but no action will be taken until the graduates and undergraduates have been consulted...
...Significance. Editor Ellery Sedgwick of The Atlantic Monthly lately assured the English that they were a most unprejudiced people who regarded toleration as a cardinal virtue. Here is further evidence for that contention, so far as English authors are concerned. The Monkey Puzzle, slightly awkward, a bit thin-blooded, is still visibly related to Shaw's Candida. Powy's Mr. Trasker's Gods...