Word: callowness
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...Once again, we doubt that the Lampoon view is Harvard's, but we shall not feel positive until Father John himself has disclaimed the insinuations advanced by his callow off-spring. Princeton by no means feels that it is necessary at further cost to its dignity, to preserve the 'Big Three'." Daily Princetonian...
...never quite an even friendship. Mr. Carson, the younger of the two, secretly envied his friend's intellectual equipment and attainments. Mr. Buermeyer, though not conceited, was occasionally made conscious of his superiority, real or imaginary, and sometimes adopted his old air of omniscient graduate student talking to callow undergraduate...
...Schacht, though accounted sage in German and Allied financial circles, has something of a penchant for starting ill considered libel suits. His most famous action of this sort was to bring suit for libel against a German music publisher who had attached jazz music to a callow poem indisputably written by Herr Schacht in his youth and sold by him at that time for a pittance to a German magazine from whom it was purchased by the music publisher...
Meanwhile Senator Norris, insurgent Nebraskan, contemplates again the worthwhileness of political life, the betrayals, the corruption, the callow honors. He recalls the "treason" his Progressive friends played him some years ago when they backed the Kenyon packer bill instead of his own packer bill. That day he collapsed in the Senate. Since, he has remained inexcitable over the rehashed chatter, begun by Mr. LaFollette in 1924, to give U. S. politics another Progressive orientation. Feeling that most of the institutions they are combating are as firmly embedded as ever, he now, as in 1924, turns toward the recourse of soft...
...three mile bridge at Poughkeepsie, 40,000 people observed that the Huskies were a scant length ahead; at three and three-quarter miles, Navy whistles screamed that the shells were even; then the oars of "Rusty" Callow's men pushed back the Hudson river sufficiently to heave one-quarter length of the Washington shell across the finish line first. After the Navy came Syracuse, Penn, Columbia, California, Wisconsin, Cornell, in glittering procession...