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Word: cheapness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unless this is done for a considerable length of this the saving would be slight. The work for the Government must be continued, and that involves keeping open laboratories and libraries, the plant must be kept from destruction; the students must live somewhere and dormitories are approximately as cheap a method of keeping them warm as could be found. Moreover, it has been calculated, that the cost in rule of having the students travel to their homes would equal that of keeping them warm in college dormitories for a number of days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLOSING OF COLLEGES OPPOSED | 2/11/1918 | See Source »

...read and can read. The editors might even go to some of the men outside their evidently narrow clique for help. It would be sad to see the Advocate go on sending good war-time paper to the basket encumbered with spineless imitations of what might have filled cheap magazines a dozen years ago. T. L. HOOD...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advocate Shows Puerility | 12/19/1917 | See Source »

...hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWENTY YEARS HENCE | 6/8/1917 | See Source »

...manufacturer who stamped that flag upon his napkins held willingly in contempt the symbol of the nation's greatness. He turned to a cheap and personal use that ideal which may never be cheap nor personal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ILL CHOSEN PATRIOTISM. | 5/25/1917 | See Source »

...life and passion of the "Flower of France" are quite wonderful and divine enough in historic fact, without adding sugary heroics in order to pamper a public taste as cheap as dirt. The crime of her trial and death are in all belief bad enough without inventing impossibly fiendish detail and a demonaic bishop for villain. Incidentally, the authoress of "Joan the Woman" seemed to have been rather hard put to it to present a good group of Frenchmen as the soldiers of the Maid and an equally good group of Englishmen compelled by cruel History to be her murderers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Theatre in Boston | 3/21/1917 | See Source »

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