Word: canker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passion for "campus prestige." Everyone, we are informed, dives into the rough-and-tumble for extra-curricular honors. No place at Yale for the lonely stag, the wall flower; every man has to make his "Y" in something or other. Studies can ride--they're not important. But the canker is even more loathsome than this; for almost every "activities" man is living a lie. He doesn't write for the Record or the News because he likes to, but because he is a crass fame-grabber, because he wishes to climb the well-worn ladder of extra-curricular activities...
with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper . . . Usura rusteth the chisel It rusteth the craft and the craftsman It gnaweth the thread in the loom None learneth to weave gold in her pattern ; Azure hath a canker by usura; cramoisi...
President Gabriel Terra of Uruguay, indicating that he feels he has removed from his country a Red canker of Revolution, decreed the end of all his Government's "extraordinary measures to avert internal disorders," proclaimed a joyous amnesty, invited Uruguayan political exiles to come home if they please...
...laboratory and the stacks. With some instructors this is true. But as a substitute for an intelligent personal estimate of each individual by his fellow workers, this principle can only end in failure. Four out of five men in every sciences department will testify to the truth of this canker--if he is sure that he will not be quoted by name to the "higher-ups." It has proved to be academic suicide to those with the courage to state their views openly...
...Asaph Hall (10 hr. 14 min. 24 sec.), it could not be a drifting cloud, might be a volcanic eruption in a fixed area. To still others a volcano on cold Saturn seemed hardly more imaginable than spontaneous combustion in a snowball.* Still an enigma is Saturn's canker...