Word: badness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...mugwump is no more likely to force a good measure upon a party by holding the balance of power than he is to force a bad one upon...
...university teams, the Lawn Tennis Association, although receiving $629, had a debt standing of over $350. The Cricket Club, with $569 receipts, retained a balance of only $3.21, diminishing its former balance $50. The Cycling Association is in a bad way. With receipts of $877, including $145 loan, it is still nearly $300 in debt. The Rowing Club has a very satisfactory balance of $1,100, having spent only...
...first annual report of the graduate treasurer for athletics is enough in itself to show conclusively that the plan of having an older head to control our athletic expenses is a good one. When we think of the bad management in some of the past years, we wonder that the position of graduate treasuer was not established long before. Now that it has been put on a sure footing, we need have no longer the slightest fear of utterly reckless and extravagant managing by undergraduates...
...Sioux blood-if these Indians do not often relapse into vicious modes of life after leaving the mission school? Not often, but sometimes. Can not any one cite examples of college friends who have had every advantage of education and surroundings, and yet have gone to the bad? And should one expect better things of the Indian? Can a settlement of Indians be very vicious where it is perfectly safe for a single woman to live alone and teach, far away from white friends or acquaintances...
...present system discriminates for bad books against good ones; Lit. World, XX, 24; and bears heavily on American authors; Critic VIII...