Word: callously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...justification of this conference, the Boston Student Committee Against War has issued this statement: "It is no longer necessary to convince people of the imminence of a second world war. The danger is rather that we have become so used to the idea as to be callous to it. The purpose of actions such as the Armistice Day Weekend actions planned by the students' committee is to combat this callousness, and to organize into an effective force the antiwar sentiment of the great majority of the student body. The actions are taken during Armistice Day Weekend because we are convinced...
Author Rouverol (Skidding) has given the youngsters a funny, often callous play about two-dimensional adolescence, in the guaranteed tradition of Booth Tarkington. Present are the malapropisms ("hyperficial"), the big words for little feelings, the emotional roller-coasting from top to bottom to top again in a minute flat, adult poses and childish behavior...
...refused, Eliot House has harbored a certain sense of inferiority. Witness the incident of a notice posted day before yesterday, announcing a lecture by Professor "Karl" Schumpeter. Around the name "Karl", some eagle-eyed resident drew a little circle, with the cryptic comment: "Huh?" A confident Dunster or a callous Lowell would not have minded, but at Eliot House they are sensitive about such things. The notice was taken down yesterday and a new one posted: "Professor Josef Schumpeter...
...years. Declared Dr. Douglass: "Christians who combine the spiritual and the social are needed [in China], especially to plan and demonstrate and set up norms for religious education. It is of the utmost importance that these two things be not separated . . . that spirituality shall prove itself not sterile or callous to social suffering and injustice...
...calculated breach of contract!" shrilled the Financial Times which added: "The word default has an ugly sound but it is used deliberately with respect to the action taken by the U. S." Bumbled the Tory Morning Post: "It would be difficult to find a parallel for so unblushing and callous a breach of contract. ... It is almost unthinkable that Washington would repudiate the letter and spirit of the gold contracts in these bonds." Mocked the Financial News: "Iowa and the farmers at large are in the legislative saddle and Roosevelt can but paddle along holding on to the tail." British...