Word: decently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offer to "reward" the subscriber who detects a genuine new fashion with "knowledge that he has performed a petty public service." First I ask you if it would not be only decent to give such a subscriber at least $10 for services which are to your profit. It makes me angry to see people trying to get away with something for nothing. That is not a straight way to do business. It will not react to your favor in the long...
Laughing, gay, eloquent, M. Manoilescu appeared before his judges to astound them with the news that Prince Carol sought not the throne but only a place in the Regency council. Said he: "The Prince is too loyal and decent to think of dethroning...
...miners demanded an increase of 2½c an hour, equivalent to a 12½% rise on an average eight-hour weekly wage of $9.60, which, considering the high cost of living in the Reich, is unqualifiedly asserted to be far below decent living...
...that which is collegiate in the sense of College Human and Judge Jr., and that which is only the irrepressibility of youth is very difficult. The danger of being too sober and too sane is evenly matched by the danger of being inane and hysterical. The distinction between the decent and the indecent, however, is much easier and requires no leaf critical genius. There are actions and trivolities which are inexcusable even when done in the name of boyish press and of good clean...
Published by the Class of 1900 "at decent intervals," according to an announcement on the mast-head, it has apparently considered the present moment a "decent" one on which to appear, for it has blossomed forth in bright green ink with a most convivial scene on the front page...