Word: cheapening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...medium of a bootlegger. In that part of the world visible to the average Harvard student, Prohibition did little more than take drinking from the corner saloon and put it in the home, the college dormitories, and exclusive little clubs now known as speakeasies. True, it did slightly cheapen the quality and slightly increase the cost of liquor. Our libraries may someday be filled by methods not unlike the way we now fill our cellars...
...offers a convenient relief from extended general work to many who accept readily the label of "candidate for honors". What may seem, from the figures it can show, to be emancipation of the honors degrees, is really a narrowing device, which permits the passage of numbers that only cheapen the distinction degree. As a stricture on the fair application of the honors principle, the Junior divisional examination deserves no place in the curriculum...
...shrubs and other plants that produce a sap with the characteristics of rubber. Mr. Firestone said of him: "No one knows more about rubber than Edison." Said Mr. Edison of the Dutch East Indies report: "There is no doubt that the method will greatly increase output as well as cheapen it. ... I am not working to cheapen rubber. ... I believe enough rubber can be grown in the U. S. to. pull us through [in case of war]. The price is not serious in such a case...
There is, however, still one service left to perform which often others must perform for him, it is a service which might once have been a pleasure, even a triumph but now, through time, is a sacrifice and almost a desecration. It seems to cheapen. It is not always careful and discriminating, though in good hands it may be. It is the popularization of the man's name, the exposition of his works and wisdom for public consumption the creating of a "human" atmosphere about him, so that, though still not fully comprehended, scholarship may have a name...
This form of hero-worship as old as time itself, is unhealthy. It tends to obscure and to cheapen the cause of the worship, which is the only legacy of the man himself, but which is lost in the tumult and the shouting that tomorrow will be raised over another perhaps less worthy hero...