Word: bugaboo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Standard Oil Co. was broken up into its constituent companies. It was an illegal combination in restraint of trade in the Government's eyes, but in the minds of the public it was more than that- a bugaboo for its enormity. That was the day before Babbitt could digest with equanimity huge business transactions retailed in his breakfast journal. Now he has become so used to big figures that he merely glances at the digits in the millions column and lets the remaining zeros trail in the fringe of consciousness...
After the metropolitan press had used to full and florid advantage the announcement from the American Association of University Professors that football was really not the essential item in modern educational policy the Yale News decided to revive that bugaboo of last autumn, the perennial fall guy, football for the momentary display included in this column. That there is a certain sanity in their reaction is apparent. But that this sanity is slightly adumbrated by the clouds of sentimentalism, too often hovering upon undergraduate horizon is even more apparent...
Tiddde-de-dumpty, tiddle-de-dee- The spider courted the frisky flea; Tiddle-de-dumpty, tiddle-de-doo- The flea ran off with the bugaboo...
...CHALLENGE OF ASIA-Stanley Rice-Scribner ($2.25). Once more the bugaboo of the Yellow Peril appears. The adjective yellow is admittedly loosely used, for the Asiatics are of a variety of hues. The author knows his subject, believes that the real challenge of Asia is concerned with dignity-a "desire that their voices shall count in the world's councils." The races of Asia mean to be respected; and, to ensure this, they aim to increase their material prosperity with the object of strengthening their political power. The white man evidently has the alternative of treating the yellow...
Those who are pulling for a reversal of football fortunes under the Fisher-Daly regime cannot but realize that the absence of Mike will mean the absence of one of the most distinctive features of Harvard cheering and the loss of an unfailing champion against the bugaboo of Harvard indifference...