Word: casual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...casual thinker this has certain rather unpleasant implications. Either Mr. Brangwyn asks too much of a human face or life asks too little. Of course the belief that man's character lies revealed upon his face has long been shown false. Yet the spiritual power in a man, be it sufficiently great, does penetrate to the surface. Too few today evince any such power. The hard straight lines of an iron age have marked its men. Only among the hills or upon the plains where the world still seems but an unnecessary preface to the heavens can the face...
...Widener. The consequences of this condition of things are deeper than appear on the surface. By transferring all intellectual activity from his living quarters to the college library, the student falls into the practice of limiting his reading to his courses and to the preparation of assigned themes; and casual spontaneous reading correspondingly suffers. Reading as a task takes the place of reading for pleasure...
...outcome of the deciding World Series game today, declared positively that Washington would capture the pennant encounter 4 to 2. He was, however, reluctant to give this information, because though readily admitting himself to be unexcelled as a football dopester, his experience with baseball has been more casual...
...last Saturday's performance. Save for a few offensive exhortations to "Talk it up!" or, still more odious, to "Pep it up!" which will, it is to be hoped, be omitted hereafter, the new order of cheer leaders seemed fully as dignified, and far more capable than the more casual leaders of the past...
Except for a slightly greater precision in carrying out their assignments, no slowing up of the offense was noticeable to the casual observer. Coach Fisher used three full teams, and the score by period shows that the University machine functioned effectively no matter what eleven men formed its cogs. In the first period, with the regulars in, 21 points were scored, and the the constant substitutions in the later stages did not prevent the scoring of 14, 13, and 20 points in the second, third, and fourth periods, respectively...