Word: badness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lighting in the lecture rooms is so bad when the lamps are dimmed for slide projection that a positive strain on the eyes results from an hour's attempt at taking notes in the gloom...
Alert, clear-eyed, sharp-eared, she heard Chief Justice Taft begin the oath: "You, Herbert Hoover, do you solemnly swear . . ." And what was her amazement to hear him conclude, "preserve, maintain and defend the Constitution of the U. S." That was a bad misquotation of the text, thought Helen, who sat right down and wrote the Chief Justice a polite note of correction...
Explained Dean of Women Florence Donahue: "Father McNichols said the girls could do their love-making off the campus. They came here to study. He is tired of seeing the girls act like campus widows. It would not have been so bad if they talked to only one boy at a time, but when they stopped to talk to one they were soon chatting with seven or eight...
What is a bad egg? One that stinks with hydrogen sulphide, or one that contains a partially formed chick...
When newspapers fought each other in the good old, bad old days, it was with edged verb and bludgeoning adjective in their editorial columns. But newspapers fight each other no longer. They now compete. Their battlegrounds are their advertising departments, their weapons statistics...