Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crusty E. W. Scripps who laid the foundations of the present Scripps-Howard empire was an extraordinary personality. An awkward, sensitive farm boy, born in Illinois, he grew up to despise formal education. Famed for his feuds and his acquisitiveness, he bullied advertisers and politicians, founded or acquired 44 newspapers from coast to coast, drank a gallon of spirits a day until he ruined his health...
...University's motto applies to present as well as past truth. But present truth is more awkward than past and a concern for factual teaching is sometimes a simple disguise for evasion of present truth. Yours very sincerely, Marcel Francon, Instructor in Romance Languages...
Cavalcade-not the first, but the second British magazine to lift TIME'S form and formula-has devoted a large part of its two years in business to falling between a succession of journalistic stools. Last week currency was given to the most recent and most awkward farrago in Cavalcade's career...
Sentence (1), stating that young novelists, because permanent art is arduous, angle after contemporary applause, is simple in meaning though rhetorically sprawling. Sentence (2) restates in altered words the argument of the first sentence, employing the awkward, "a deathicss name"; but afterwards expands, paralleling with the figure of the millionaire and the transplanted elm. After scrutinizing cogitation the transplanted elm appears blatantly impossible, either in its own context or in relation to the young novelist and his contemporary applause. Sentence (3) commences firmly to distinguish between "compact" and "fulfilled," but instead of focusing his point the frivolous poet appends...
...George Lowman, and Ulysses Lupien, form the nucleus of veterans, with Charlie Lutz, last year's Yardling captain, and John Herrick, Varsity reserve center a year ago, completing the first team. As Bill Gray's understudy Herrick saw considerable action in last season's games and although still slightly awkward, the six foot six center has greatly improved in handling himself and the ball on the floor. In Lutz, Fesler has found as sure a passer and deceptive a dribbler as any of the more experienced members of the squad...