Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...support. Big Business was almost completely ignoring one of the largest academic plants in the country and was shirking duty in the subsidy of its operating expenses. It is true that there have been some minor gestures, as witness the Weeks Bridge, but they can only be called casual pittances flung to the Business School shamefacedly by men whom we know from careful records have more than that. Such degrees as given to Mr. Walter B. Baker can only be presented when the donor is on the verge of bank ruptey. In looking over the treatment it has given...
However, it is the work of the school of Great Decorators in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which makes the contents of these three rooms stand out in the memory of the casual observer, the student lounging there after a Fine Arts examination. That screen on the dais, with its silver gray background and autumn flowers behind a brushwood fence, is echoed in the huge grey globe of Shigaraki pottery. The red camelia of the screen finds a red reflection in the lacquer of the ancient stand below. So too with the insolent macaw by Jakucho as his whiteness...
...have to explain to France why U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg has rejected the Franco-U. S. peace pact which Mr. Herrick himself brought back from France before he collapsed in health (TIME, July 4). In a stirring plea for this pact Poet-Statesman Claudel cried: "Casual thinking people, speaking of the proposal, have said: 'It is nothing but words. . . . Can you stop war with paper?' . . . Well, words are great things. It is written: 'In the beginning was the Word. . . . I remember, too, some general declarations, some pieces of writing, which were well worth...
Undeniably industrious, able, ambitious, well-born,* clever, Robert Clarkson has attracted his quota of envy. He is often seen edging, a few minutes late, into his box at polo, at the horseshow, at the theatre, at prizefights. Recognizing him at these events, casual acquaintances wonder when he finds time to do his work. They would probably fail to identify his round gay face of a somewhat sophisticated cherub with the intent, solemn, face which, late at night has been seen bending over Robert Clarkson's desk...
...cent something better that that of a steam engine; that a frog's muscle can lift one thousand times its won weight? Have you a clear conception of what causes the "lubb" and the "dup" of the heart beat? All these question open up a new field to the casual reader, along...