Word: badness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain Morgan was still out with a bad cold...
Percy and Abbott are both still out of the game with bad colds...
...juggling with masses of facts forms the basis for all conviction. Far from it. He knows and everyone knows who hears him that he is taking part in a beneficial mental exercise. He is developing speaking ability and the power of logical analysis. The debater certainly receives no bad influence from being trained to find at once the flaw in an opponent's argument, or to collect diligently the facts upon a subject before he attempts to speak upon...
Loafing may be a very good thing or a very bad thing. There are three varieties of loafing. There is that which is unadulterated and continuous, and which soon eliminates one from membership in the University. There is the kind which is mixed with a little work; it is neither work nor play, but a pale concoction of both. This kills efficiency, contentment, and self-respect. Then there is the valuable sort; it is "scientific loafing." It comes in intervals of recuperation and inspiration between hours of concentrated effort. This makes for efficiency; it makes play more enjoyable because earned...
...that is just what the writers of this morning's pacifistic communication to the CRIMSON would evidently have it do. They take the position that because war is bad the United States should under all circumstances whatsoever die rather than fight. Or else they wish her, when she fights, to have not the ghost of a chance to win. Against responsibilities as men upon whom women and children depend, against national honor (to which they apply quotation marks), they place the term "organized murder. Do they prefer disorganized suicide...