Word: casual
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Equally to be admired are the fine generosity of his thought and the hardihood with which he exposes his bank account to the zeal of competing "drive" teams. One casual sentence, moreover, discloses an underlying wisdom. "Almost without exception self-made men educate their own children." With only a single step further in the enlightenment of self-interest, we arrive at the conclusion that, as the ultimate beneficiary of advanced education is the community as a whole, the community as a whole should be reckoned the professor's ultimate debtor...
College undergraduates are noted for being casual. It is a great deal easier to sit around and wait for someone to start something than to walk up to the CRIMSON Office and buy your own bond. The canvassers should not have to spend their time prodding the laziness of those who intend to buy anyhow. We must all take more than a passive interest unless...
...front line trenches, stripping away social mannerisms and prejudices, to teach the American soldier in France to like and respect the Briton. Unfortunately, it is impossible to stage a war very frequently to promote international good-will. But, if we remain dependent upon newspapers, history books, and casual tourists for our knowledge of foreign countries, the chances for mutual understanding will not be increased...
...these days of censorship, rumor and uncertainty the American journal has found a ripe field for the interpretation of news according to its own desires. Given any bit of information from abroad, a casual glance at the morning papers will discover no end of variation in its presentation and emphasis. Moreover, in the last year there has been combined with this a spirit of artificial patriotism which attempts to make all news good news. In huge headlines we see that the French have advanced, while below, in some obscure corner, it is asserted that the Germans have made no appreciable...
...discover faults, but the benefit by their elimination. At the same time, however, dissatisfaction over one subject causes un-intentional blindness to the merits of others, as we are silently contented to make few comments on beneficent results, or because a steady success attracts only casual attention, we over-emphasize the mistakes. There do exist, nevertheless, numerous causes for satisfaction, which deserve favorable criticism no less than others deserve unfavorable...