Word: carelessly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...very best of them cannot render for us that which is the characteristic of all great and individual writing, namely, Style, any more than a plaster cast can reproduce a marble statue. Shakespeare, you recollect, with that inevitable tact in the choice of epithets which gives to every careless phrase of his an esoteric as well as exoteric meaning, makes Quince exclaim, when he sees Bottom with the ass's head on his shoulders,- "Bless thee, Bottom, bless thee, thou art translated...
...will be forthcoming in time. We want, however, to point out the situation to Ninety-seven men and to ask them if they would not in the end prefer to have given the whole sum promptly and without seeming to begrudge it. The crew is not a bad one; careless at times, as most freshman crews are, and yet, on the whole, taking to its work in good shape. Since it deserves support, and is the only athletic organization to ask for it, we expect from Ninety-seven a handsome response. We hope this year to see no frantic appeals...
There is another abuse, though of quite a different character, about which we have been asked to speak. It is with reference to the crews running upon North avenue. There is a tendency for the men to be careless about ordinary pedestrians, and to come to feel that they themselves have the right of way. There is some reason for this; not a few Cambridge people are so lenient in their admiration for youthful strength and dash, that they do not mind scurrying to one side of the walk, and, in muddy weather, of being generally bespattered. But for every...
...rows short and is a little careless...
...students; they enter into the University life with more single and intense purpose, they multiply organizations to supplement their particular interests, they find themselves associated constantly, not with men of the same class, but with men of the same interests. Absorbed in their own occupations, they are careless of what is outside of these...