Word: decently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Permit me to thank you for the very decent and extraordinarily honest treatment thus far of my newspapers and myself by your magazine. It is indeed a wonderful thing to see a magazine take such an impartial and straight viewpoint, allowing freedom and fairness to both sides of the question...
Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis received a letter from Representative Rankin, Democrat from Mississippi. The Congressman first related that in the Robert E. Lee mansion at Arlington, Va., there hangs an autographed copy of a speech by Robert G. Ingersoll. This, said the Congressman, "is offensive to every decent, loyal, self-respecting individual from the South. . . an unusual and unnecessary desecration" of the Lee mansion...
...civilization in the freshman year, and the 19th Century U. S. for sophomores- and helping them to take it to bits, see how, why and whither it worked. Dr. Meiklejohn has proposed the "project" for small colleges. Dr. Frank indorsed the plan for a large university because, "unless with decent promptness we bring a fresh coherence and fruitful comprehensiveness into . . . freshman and sophomore years of our colleges of liberal arts, the junior-college movement! may proceed as a merely mechanical split-off, a merely administrative secession, with no meaning beyond a decentralization of the chaos...
...about to make a compromise so that those who favor complete immersion and those who do not can continue in the same church without words of little wisdom and much bitterness. In the role of advocate for moderation and compromise Dr. Brougher has, in his category at least, a decent part to play. But when he uses such words he is reducing the action to that of farce...
...obtained by an athlete with little more than persistency. Berna was an Ithaca High School boy. He first reported for track in his senior year. He was one of the also rans on his school team. It was not until his senior year that he developed anything like a decent stride. Then he ran the fastest two miles ever credited to an American collegian. Furthermore, in the race in which he set the present collegiate record of 9.17 4-5, he ran five feet out from the pole, which means that he ran at least 30 yards over...