Word: decently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Importance of the questionnaire was stressed by Raymond E. Dennett '36, graduate Secretary of Phillips Brooks House. He stated, "From all evidence at the Brooks House information desk, there seems no question that the housing of graduate students is poor, inadequate, and expensive. There is apparently no decent standard between boarding houses on prices or service. A survey of this sort is badly needed to find out what exactly the situation...
Said Colonel William Franklin Knox's indignant newspaper: "Decent people are curious to know why it requires three weeks to determine whether a convicted pander should be brought back to complete a sentence ... for one of the most despicable, filthy offenses of which a man can be found guilty. . . . There is something decidedly rotten when this sort of thing continues indefinitely. . . . The public . . . is beginning to understand what this rotten thing is: THE BRAZENLY ACKNOWLEDGED ALLIANCE BETWEEN CRIMINALS AND CORRUPT POLITICIANS...