Word: decently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hold that a female must necessarily be a modest one the tied up to the neck in a sack, especially if she jumps in it her modesty may be dubious, but she is decent. But there can be no doubt of the immodesty of one who goes half naked. . . . If I understand your gliding scale of Modesty, the most petticoats dance in the shortest petticoats, and the purest of all in fig-leaves...
...university--and I say it with all the seriousness of which I am capable (just think of that!)--I would found first a smoking room; then when I had a little more money in hand I would found a dormitory; then after that, or more properly with that, a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had money over that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some textbooks...
...other hand, in Middleboro, England, the radicals can get no converts because the men are happy in a steady job, fair hours, good wages, a sliding scale, and a labor organization that has the countenance of the management. Bolshevism cannot get a hold in a community where decent labor conditions prevail...
...were founding a university--and I say it with all the seriousness of which I am capable, I would found first a smoking room; then when I had a little more money in hand I would found a dormitory, then after that, or more properly with that, a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had money over that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some textbooks. --New York Times...
Altogether, then, the opposition is due rather to inertia against innovation than to anything in the proposition itself. But it is quite time that the authorities took cognizance of the feelings of the onlookers in this matter. It is only decent that we should make as comfortable as possible the public that takes so much interest in us; most of all we owe it to our graduates, who, though unable to follow the season closely, turn out loyally for the big games. Harvard should fall in line...