Word: baserate
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...well-worn fable of a struggle between a man's better and worse natures; but to me it has always seemed far more subtle. Dr. Jekyll was not the good part of the man. If it had been it would no doubt have prevailed over the baser qualities. These would have appeared as they did finally in all their abhorrent reality, and the better part would have been shocked into rejecting them. But Dr. Jekyll was the whole man; with both higher and lower impulses. To the latter he yielded, turning himself for a time into Mr. Hyde, with...
...spectacle of its kind since Roman times. . . . Next day the Soviet news organ Isvestia sternly announced that no such "spectacle" would be permitted, quoted from the law forbidding prizefights in Russia "because the sport is not conducive to the invigoration of the working masses, but tends to arouse their baser emotions...
...school as around a centre of sweetness and light. Prime upon the program were a buffalo barbecue and dancing in the new stadium (which cost $250,000 and was given entirely by Indians) - dancing of a nature which moved local ministers to protest that it "tended to cultivate the baser instincts of the Indian...
...Idaho, Minnesota, Oregon and Utah) sterilization, to prevent transmission of mental insufficiency from parent to offspring, is not favored. Top little is yet known about eugenics, U. S. physicians feel, to incur the legal risk of controlling procreation. They feel also that promiscuous sterilization would induce prostitution among women, baser vices among men. Professor Bumke's arguments against such operations duplicated the U. S. attitude. He did, however, supply a new and quaint observation. "There are," he said, "too many lunatics at large in the world for wholesale castration...
...habit once established has a fair chance of invading the graduate's realm, always provided the elements of comfort are supplied. Both in college and out, a vital connection exists between cultural conversation and the baser materials of life...