Word: bugbear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greater importance to the general undergraduate body is the unmistakable stand taken by the Advocate in offering its columns for the publication of such a work as "The Rally." Thrusting aside the time honored bugbear of "poor taste", and daring the fury of wounded sensibilities the Advocate has staunchly committed itself to the task of voicing whatever legitimate criticism of Harvard life may be brought to the attention of its editors...
...competing for athletic management. The "recreation and leisure" section included exercise and sports such as golf and tennis, reading, not in preparation for classroom work, lectures and concerts, theatres and movies, card-playing, "parties", in the pre-Volstead sense, dances and social activities, informal discussions and that bugbear of the weeks before Tap Day, the "dope session," at which the undergraduate solemly argues Bill Jones's chance to be tapped last man for Skull and Bones, or whether Wolf's Head or Elihu Club will provide a haven for Jim Smith...
...these courses than the one proposed! Those for whom organized religion has not broken down and those who desire to readjust themselves should not be corralled into a required course. Because of their disinterested presence, such a course must necessarily lack spontaneity, must become, for many at least, a bugbear. Around that course, designed to enable "the student to work out a rational view of life", there will grow rank vegetation: tutoring schools will offer to sell "a rational view of life and raise your grade a letter--or your money back." At section meetings, the unwilling will be hand...
...amount three times as great as the Dawes loan? If in their present needy condition they are willing to do this, they show a loyalty to rank and property strangely incongruous in a socialist republic. Capitalists who dread Socialism will then sigh with relief to find their worst bugbear so completely discounted in Germany. And political students who question the strength of Republican sentiment in Germany will have their doubts settled by the greatest popular referendum since Napoleon III staged his coup d'etat...
...bugbear of the oil industries has been the large stocks of both crude oil and gasoline on hand. Yet some months ago, as soon as the excessive preceding production had begun to slow up, prices for both crude and gasoline were rapidly jacked up. The oil men in adopting this policy were obviously trusting that production would remain steady or decline further, while consumption would be record-breaking...