Word: blunter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...draw from the editorial reprinted below. After much puzzling, the CRIMSON has begun to suspect that it is being treated to a dose of sarcasm. If we were "Life" or even Lampy, we should try to give payment in kind; but being only a newspaper we must reply on blunter methods. In passing, it might be remarked that partial quotation is virtually mis-quotation:--"Life's" summary of the CRIMSON's point of view is accurate, but it is incomplete...
...that their presence is to be lamented--these who come here for what they term social training, and for naught else. But we cannot be rid of them. If we desire a universal interest in the halls of learning, there must be made an effort to entice the blunter spirits away from the lures of Machu-Picchu". Cordially yours. J. BLAIR-DUNCAN...