Word: casuality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case with that popular being--the moron. "A moron in Europe is just a moron; to America he is something more." To be exact he is a movement, a symbol, a danger, a type he is anything but an individual. This tendency of Americans to make shibboleths of casual remarks of foreigners and men without countries is responsible, thinks Mr. Boyd, for the inferiority complex which we are now suffering. Nor will ruminating on the subject make us less inferior...
...adverse to washing some more of John Harvard's dirty linen in public. It appears on the one hand that President Lowell considered that the athletic policy had been presented and tacitly approved by the Board; on the other that the Board considered the question in a casual and tentative manner. Considering the importance that policy has since assumed it seems particularly unlucky for the parties concerned that the misunderstanding should have occurred in this particular instance. The human equation of course, explains the incident. Misunderstandings may occur at any time. It is regretable when they coincide with important issues...
...more of the terrifying odors; a snort of alarm, figures of men and horses galloping from concealment, the crack of rifles, carnage. As survivors of the herd thundered off into fastnesses of their island (18 miles long, five wide), they could not know the worst: that this was no casual foray by human meat-hunters, but slaughter by up-to-date sportsmen, with intent to decimate. Not hunger but commercialism had precipitated the onslaught. The buffalo of Antelope Island were doomed, all but about 50 of them, to make way for more manageable and profitable cattle...
...effective good can be accomplished by ruminating upon that feeling. To hide it beneath any casual silence is but to increase it. And that the CRIMSON has no desire to do. Rather is it the purpose of the CRIMSON to get at the root of the matter and attempt in some fashion to eradicate what is at best puerile and futile...
Whatever alarm there may be over rapid-transit dining about Harvard Square, there is none behind the counters of the food marts. Scaling their wares over the counter, the food-dispensers are speeding the guests on the way, careless alike of stomachic disturbances and desire for casual talk, both of which seem to be present in the student body...