Word: cheapening
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...famed "General," is operative head of the Pennsylvania Railroad. They aggregate no mean amount of prestige. Their offer is to function as an operating company for the Government in the manufacture of a metallic magnesium aluminum alloy, which has the strength of mild steel, would revolutionize railway car construction, cheapen transportation, provide stocks of metal?discovered by the Germans in the World War? for airplanes and dirigible structures...
...story has the strong smell of dreary sordidness. Degeneration is the theme; a playright and his actress wife, the characters. The playwright will not cheapen his work to pander to the petty tastes of the masses whose francs support the Theatre. He lives on the earnings of his wife. To gain food and clothing for him, she sells herself to a succession of stage-door libertines. He gets the food and clothes. Finally he turns to a variety of unpleasant activities, brings the curtain down by strangling his wife in drunken frenzy...
...nothing can stop you. But if you are determined, only make a point of reading first the President's "Have Faith in Massachusetts". From this collection of his speeches you can gain an impression and appreciation of Coolidge's character which even the vulgarism efforts of Massachusetts effusions can cheapen...
Here, it seems, is an opportunity for the chemical departments of our universities, as well as our industrial chemists, to do the country a great service. Our research workers are second to none; surely, among them, they can find means to cheapen the production of our present dyes to a point that will enable us to fight off our German rivals. Then, too, there is always the possibility of stumbling on some new compound that will revolutionize the industry. The prizes in the chemical field are large no one who works out a first-class process will ever go hungry...
...such an exhausted condition. Moreover, the distance runners in the spring are often the cross-country runners of the preceding fall. At Yale the letter is awarded to those runners who finish within twelfth place in the intercollegiate run, whether Yale wins the run or not. This does not cheapen the letter, for to secure even twelfth place in such an event requires great qualities. I think the Athletic Association should follow Yale's example in this respect, and place a real "H" within the reach of good cross-country runners, or else remove the mythical reward altogether. E.L. VIETS...