Word: casual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good many Americans, settling back after one of the most confusing elections in history, will find time to cast a casual glance "over across" to see how things measure up in today's elections in Great Britain...
Elsewhere in this number, humor comes more easily. The author of the casual lines entitled "By the Way" has done his work uncommonly well. In economy of expression he excells as well as in the quality of his matter. Likewise, "Typical Topics" and "Lampy's Question-Box" are well done in a vein familiar to readers of humorous columns in contemporary newspapers. Into the involved "Chart" the statistician has inserted sly fun, and also some commonplaceness. "The Freshman's Credo" is another bit of sophisticated writing which has avoided the fatal touch of routine. Much of the verse...
...miles which correspond to these parallax determinations tax the imagination to conceive. The contributions of astronomy in interpreting the sky and the earth's plane in the universe have exerted a profound influence on men's thinking in all ages'. For this reason, perhaps, astronomy makes so the casual star gazer who has learned to recognize familiar groups and the brighter planets...
Were American trade with Canada the subject of a discussion, the casual passer-by would probably smile knowingly to himself and mutter the one word, "bottlegging". However vast this traffic may be (and it looms up largest in the minds of those who know the least about it, no doubt) it is small compared to the rest of the exports and imports between the two countries. The fact is that Canada, close to us, geographically, is becoming more and more so in here various interests. The bond that holds Canada to England is probably not so strong, economically speaking...
...have the unusual combination of being truly thrilling and perfectly plausible, even extremely natural. After a labored attempt to begin with a particularly "striking" and original scene, and after falling into the usual mistake of "creating atmosphere" by a multitude of details about the lonely old country house and casual remarks let drop, for no reason at all, by every member of the household, the author swings her novel into an absorbing story, centering about the cause of a small blue circle of light which, on the first night of his entrance into the Campbell household, appeared before...