Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other events of the 63rd annual Harvard-Yale regatta on the Connecticut Thames, Yale was less casual. The Yale freshmen led game Harvard by three and a half lengths in two miles. The Yale Junior Varsity led Harvard by four lengths in two miles. The Yale combination eight led struggling Harvard by three lengths in one mile. And the Yale Varsity led courageous, bitterending Harvard by two lengths in four miles. It was a fifth consecutive Yale year...
...same time educational methods are undergoing a parallel development less noticeable to the casual observer but far more important to the wellbeing of the College. It is no exaggeration to say that educators all over the country are watching Harvard's great experiment with the Oxford tutorial system. A corps of capable tutors is being built up, slowly as is necessary to insure permanence; and most auspicious of all signs, undergraduates are heartily interested and are wholly...
...develop a machine to measure the tensile and tortional strains of each little fiber of beef, but is careful to check the findings by the teeth of expert beef eaters. Just what use will be made of these tests the Department of Agriculture does not state. To the casual observer it would seem that all the packers and restaurateurs would rise in a body to protest against their ancient prerogative of serving tough steak. What is more likely, however, is that the proprietors of food shops will hasten to proclaim that "The Government Says our Steaks are Tender...
...casual observer might, indeed, come to this conclusion. A few years ago a female of the species, "homo studiens", would have been as rare and out of place in the Yard as a man in the lingerie department of Shepherd's. Today, she is still as much out of place here, but she is no longer rare. At the mere thought of rearing a family of daughters--even as a sort of distant foster-father--John Harvard would drop his book from his knees and lose his place forever. But what to do? It is unfortunate that students from Radcliffe...
...darkened theatre the blinding spotlight reveals a jazz band in Pierrot costumes. The curtain opens on gaily painted settings, and the lyric intensity of men and women who dance, love, suffer and die, to the casual irony of the bleating rhythm of saxophones...