Word: casual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still anxious to please Mrs. Taft, Architect Gilbert designed a courtroom that to the casual visitor is one of the most impressive chambers in the U. S. A row of Ionic columns surrounds it. Bronze and steel grilles shut off the wing corridors. A handsome sculptured frieze surrounds the walls. The bench itself is a chaste and dignified bar of polished mahogany...
...well-dressed college man always should look casual. Tweeds in the daytime (well-pressed and with matching accessories, of course!), and tails for formal occasions. --Wellesley News
...about the Fair, but about the multitude of questions it did not answer, the problems not yet solved. This week he publishes The Next Hundred Years: The Unfinished Business of Science,* in which he displays a vast store of information in fields other than his own, and in casual, lucid style examines the way in which tomorrow's world may be fashioned. The book is one of two January choices of the Book-of-the-Month Club...
Experience has shown that the surface is too thin; the lacquer chips, probably falls off soon after divisionals. Even with four courses the student cannot cover the world from Pericles to Stalin in two short years and have anything but the most casual acquaintance with the subject. Far better to let the courses continue to be surveys, and the tutorial work a more thorough investigation of territory already covered. Instead of being responsible for four fields, a student might choose two, and under tutorial guidance make a complete and invigorating study of those. In place of the H. G. Wells...
This was not a case for the house of correction. Here was an upright and respected student who was the victim of an unfortunate accident, written up in Boston's scandal mongering, anti-Harvard, publicity minded papers and dealt with in a most twisted and warped fashion. To a casual reader, it would appear that here was a modern Dillinger and not an unfortunate victim of circumstances...