Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friend of the Navajo. Listing such Indian advances of the recent past as better health care and improved educational facilities, Emmons declared his own "confidence in the native capacities of Indian people-in their ability to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps if they are only given a decent opportunity." But, predictably, Emmons' words of encouragement fell on ruffled feathers...
...Well, my 'art' has kept me ragged and driven me half mad; --I will see now if prostitution can put a few decent garments on my back and keep me housed. My good friends, Professor Baker included, have told me for years now of 'my great talent,' 'my artistry,' and so on--they have told me it would be a terrible thing for me to do anything else but write. They have said, 'You have it--it's bound to come'--but not once has anyone given me advice on the simple matter of keeping the breath of life...
When a college graduate considers going to law school or business school, or even to medical school, he at least knows beforehand how long a time such training will take if he does decent work. Not so at all for a Ph.D. One may say, in reply, that law and business and medicine are professional programs and thus can be easily defined, but that the Ph.D. is essentially an individual matter between student and master; that it is therefore filled with unpredictable elements, and that, in short, it is non-professional and therefore cannot be laid out so neatly...
With prospects for a winning season having increased with wins last week over Williams and Wesleyan, it seems a shame that the varsity squad must play on an unkempt, windswept, sloppy hardpan like the Business School field. Through lacking the tradition which shrouds college football, college soccer, played under decent conditions, could easily prove what a first-rate sport...
...another new process, which is in no way distinguishable from Cinemascope. If a few million dollars less had been spent, if an hour had been cut from the first part of the film, and if a literate writer had been hired, MGM might have come up with a tolerably decent movie. But as a rival to Gone With the Wind--which it obviously is supposed to be--Raintree County just will...