Word: cankered
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...reinforced by local police will guard the dark corners where erring stags were won't to drink their fill. It is said that none but the brave deserve the fair and brave indeed will be the undergraduate who under threat of expulsion finds means whereby he may overlook the canker in the rose or blur the blemish on the girl of his choice...
...George scheme for putting Britain's 1,400,000 unemployed to work on roads and public buildings?a scheme widely denounced as impractical, impossible, vote-getting tosh (TIME, April 1). "I consider these proposals a brilliant and workable means," said Rufus Daniel Isaacs, "of making an end of a canker that has been eating into the nation's heart...
...Canker Stand...
...Bank (one of the "Big Five" banks); at Torquay, England. Onetime (1919-21) president of the Institute of Bankers, he was also a noted Greek scholar, having translated the Iliad* and other poems. Henry Bell, banker, wrote of him: For while we see Crowns drop from kingly heads, and canker Attack the hereditary tree, Yet there is left one Leaf to be At once a Poet and a Banker...
...that as it may, the serious-minded Harvard undergraduate will be grateful to The Dartmouth for pointing out this canker to him, and, even more, for prescribing its cure. He has only to understand the other extreme, and then to mix himself up with it. He would be amply justified in demanding a debate between the Advocate and the Varsity Club, or a joint meeting of the Poetry Society and the Student Council...