Word: badness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true, as rumors say, that Sealyhams have the bad taste to become nauseated when riding in a car, their aristocracy may be questioned. While I am ready to admit that all dogs are good dogs and ought to be loved and cherished for their qualities, I wish to go on record as saying that Boston bulls have the virtues of cleanliness, courage and trim appearance together with unshaken fidelity and are the peers of any fashionable dog that ever eked out an unhappy existence, plastered over with long hair. The cartoonists and a few society folks may enjoy the long...
...situation as revealed by the Grand Jury of this city [Philadelphia] as bad as it was, was nothing to compare to Chicago...
...public health administration. And Tacoma in 1927 had been the worst typhoid city of its northwest district. Memphis and Nashville have their distinction in the typhoid record. They had the worst rates per 100,000 population in the U. S.-15 for Nashville. 11.6 for Memphis.† Nearly as bad were El Paso (10.2) and Oklahoma City...
...home team, having lost its last two games, is trying to regain its winning stride, but bad luck has been following Coach Mitchell's men and has now manifested itself in the bad knew of E. H. McGrath '31, flashy short stop, which may keep him on the side lines. In case McGrath cannot plan his place at short will be taken be Captain G. E. Donaghy '29, while G. Whitney '29 will cover the hot courier and B. H. Ticknor '31 will fill the latter's left field post...
...Harvard, with a reputation for doing consistently right by its faculty, set a precedent that the rest of the universities on the Carnegie list must follow. Comparatively low salaries, painfully slow promotion, and constant demands for more and more esoteric research have already brought the teaching profession into bad enough repute without adding the prospects of a penniless old age. Some financial provision must be made for the retirement of devoted servants who have divided their activity between expounding the learned book and worrying over the account book...