Word: baser
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There are three great incentives in this campaign. There is the need of supporting the organization which keeps our military establishment fit; there is the great appeal of alleviating human suffering; and there is the baser but important stimulant to action of the smallness of the solicited contribution. If such appeals fail to pierce the student's armor of indifference, Harvard's future is a sad one. Everyone has at least something to give. The man who cannot sacrifice for such a cause is no man at all. He lacks the essentials of true national spirit. Today is the last...
...intelligent and competent. These concluding articles confirm the impression made by the number as a whole; the Monthly is frankly and unaffectedly literary, alive to recent tendencies and events, but still respectful toward standards other than its editors', and reassuringly free from extremes, poses, and "isms" of the baser sort...
...Easiest Way" brought into prominence the mayor's power of censorship. Leaving out of consideration the wisdom of this particular prohibition, there can be no doubt that there have appeared, unchallenged, numerous dramatic productions calculated to feed on human weaknesses. Such plays as the "Follies" which excite the baser passions of mankind by their sensuous dances and flippant jests in regard to breaches of the Seventh Commandment and to drunkenness have been allowed to vulgarize and debase their audiences...