Word: deadening
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...best ways of serving social betterment. It offers freedom and enlightenment to the nation through improving facilities for education and presents an excellent method for a man of wealth to become a real benefactor. Labor, with its plan of state and Federal endowment of colleges would limit and deaden education. There would be less variations, less diversity, less freedom in educational opportunities. All minds would be sent through the same machinery and cast in the same mould...
...entered the war to the material results of victory. We are more apt to stress the importance of winning or losing a few miles of shell torn fields in northern France than of preventing the formation of a Mitteleuropa. Casualty lists and the first complaints at heavy taxes will deaden our interest in a possibly far-distant victory. Yet whether we believe in a military decision, or in a peace without victory as the solution of the war, we must make our aid to the Allies as effective as possible now. It is only by holding to our original objects...
...rendered upon the quantity of first-class work produced in the way of productive scholarship, and that no amount of second-class work can atone for failure in the college to produce this first-class work. A course of study is of little worth if it tends to deaden individual initiative and cramp scholars so that they only work in the ruts worn deep by many predecessors...
...would be perfectly contented to lead a more or less quiet life for a considerable length of time. The football player, however, as soon as the acute symptoms have disappeared, is quite unwilling to be prevented from playing. In no case was any sedative drug used in order to deaden the pain of an injury so as to allow a player to take part in a game before recovery was complete...
...third floor the windows and finished wood-work have been put in, but are still unstained. The flooring of the two upper stories will consist of a thin layer of cement spread over the rough flooring and covered by dark pine. The purpose of the cement is to deaden sound. Almost all of the furniture, consisting of quartered oak book cases, exhibition cases, tables and chairs, has been ordered, but none of it has yet arrived...