Word: desideratum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exposing waistcoats", and everything else that makes the male a pleasing object, at least to himself; and ends with the suggestion that, discarding all such modifications of the strait-jacket, men attire themselves in gaudy jumper blouses, short fur coats, bright colored pajamas and shoes of vivid leathers. The desideratum suggests nothing so much as a musical comedy's presentation of a street scene in Russia...
...major study. If he diverges from this track much more than is allowed him at present, he will graduate without acquiring what he is crying for a liberal education. Moreover, this same protagonist of free choice is demanding extension of the "honors" courses. This in itself is an excellent desideratum the ideal of educating a man in the ways of educating himself. But while the liberal demands more "honors" courses, in the same breath he shrieks "Paternalism!" Do not these two war-cries run counter to one another? Both are pleas for the university type of work and condemnations...
...some 20,000 illustrious Americans, including none of the living. The Times sought to assume no control over the project, "the function of the Times being simply that of making possible, by this large subvention, the preparation of a book of reference which has long been . . . the one great desideratum among American works of reference...
...American youth is a great lover of sports. Contests for athletic supremacy hold his interest and he has cheers for the game loser as well as a deserving loser. Manliness is the chief desideratum and the only thing that wins his admiration. Red blood is not confined by State boundaries...