Word: condescending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...things by studying in terms of situations rather than subjects is convincing in the abstract. But the moment we attempt to step from the abstract into the concrete and undertake to visualize such a teaching policy in operation in a university, a thousand difficulties arise. Few have ventured to condescend to details respecting this suggestion as far as college instruction goes. It has usually been left in that twilight zone of the abstract where we keep ideas that would be good if they could be made to work. In an article published in the Century Magazine, Alexander Mciklejohn tentatively suggested...
Heywood Broun-"The man who wrote Saint Joan can now condescend a little to the author of Caesar and Cleopatra . . . much slipshodery in the first night performance...
...Should I prove, by the direct evidence of righteous men, that some prominent citizen is an honest, faithful patriot, no printing press is so mean as to condescend to print it. But should I call a train robber to testify to hearsay that robs a dead man of his honor old Gutenberg immediately hands me his largest, blackest headline type...
...Lampy to condescend to ask the Record Owl to criticise him favorably or otherwise for the enlightenment of the assembled multitude is another proof of the mutual good feeling which exists between the ancient rivals. Moreover, inasmuch as the Big Game issue refrains so kindly from blowing the foam of Yale's sour beer in her face, it is only just that I refrain from similar Menckvenism about what is really a most creditable number...