Word: bugbear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...needed in this case to furnish the gilt frame for the picture, and they do their work naturally and unobtrusively. The stage manager is to be congratulated on his good sense in not trying to force "atmosphere" in the shape of a doubtful gondola or some such operatic bugbear, but in allowing the picturesque serenade group alone to set the proper mood...
...bugbear of the U. S. Senate irreconcilables, the red herring with which they tripped President Wilson, was again offered for sacrifice on the horns of the altar by the Canadian representative at the League Council Assembly as a move to bring America into the League. A majority of member nations, led by France, preferred to keep Article...
...declared that the Court should be entered because of its importance as an agency for peace, and that its only connection with the League was that the League offered a practical means of electing judges. " One political bugbear " he admitted and discussed: that the British Empire has six votes in the Assembly of the League, which is one of the two bodies that elect the judges. He pointed out that Great Britain has, however, only one vote in the League Council which acts concurrently in the election of judges. This, and the fact that no nation may have more than...
...followed shortly after, and, with the establishment of the new "Board of Admissions," is now planning to make further progress in this direction. There is no doubt that the comprehensive examinations have done a great deal to assist the well-prepared high school student to gain admittance, but the bugbear of "flunking in one" frightens many desirable students away to the state universities. The result, unfortunate for both school and college, has Leen, on the one hand, 'fitting schools' which send students almost entirely to the more conservative castern universities; and on the other, high schools (excepting those...
...second great difficulty is that every school is bound by the bugbear of the college entrance requirements. I do not care what prospect and catalogues say, if a schoolmaster is absolutely honest, he will acknowledge that, in most cases, all his efforts, are directed to the purpose of placing his boys in their prospective colleges, free of all conditions. Hampered, firstly, by tradition, and secondly, by this bugbear, it is almost impossible to produce a real scholar...