Word: cager
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University has pursued a policy of not so salutary neglect toward cager fledglings who troop into the Union with the hope of continuing careers started in high school debating. The enthusiasm of well attended meetings of the Union Debating Society dissipates before the University's stony refusal either to appropriate money for an adequate coaching staff for upperclassmen, or to assign Public Speaking instructors to a task essentially within their province. Thus the traditional coma of Harvard debating is due not to lack of undergraduate interest, but to official indifference...
...game over, he grabbed his sweatshirt off the floor, brushed ahead of several less cager exercisers to be the first to get a drink at the fountain, and vanished in a flurry of propelling hands and legs...
...Bridges were in any way sincere in his protestations of having the "interest of the working man at heart", he would have been willing to arbitrate the simple matter of wage and hour adjustments back in October when the strike began. The ship owners were then ready and cager to sit down with the Maritime Federation and discuss adjustments in the then existing working agreements which expired in October...
...preach the gospel of German philosophy, philology, and science. All but one had gone out from Harvard; all but one returned to Harvard to expound the new vision of scholarship. It is a colorful series of pictures that Mr. Long draws from the letters and journals of these cager young men, all of whom gravitated to Goettingen to hear the giants of learning. Edward Everett, who was a Harvard A.B. at seventeen, preacher to "the politest congregation in Boston" at twenty-one, and ultimately president of Harvard, was the first American to earn the degree of Doctor of Philosophy...
...less stringent censorship, and be transmitted over cable and radio facilities also nationally controlled. Nearly every source of information is slightly biased, every avenue of communication may be closed by one or another government if the news is displeasing. The news is further filtered through American editorial desks, cager, in many cases, to accentuate exciting foreign conflict, or developments calculated to arouse American patriotic ire--with beneficial circulation results. Thus appears the "news" out of which the average man forms his opinions on foreign affairs...