Word: discreet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thought devoted to the guide, its dominant note of sincerity, the discreet emphasis laid on the fact that the little critiques are the expressions only of single individuals, may, however, be given short shift by many adult readers. Imagine undergraduates assuming to serve as critics of their teachers! The idea, if it could even have been conceived a generation ago, would have been regarded as wholly reprehensible. And to tell the truth, there is something reprehensible about it. The path to wisdom is seldom shortened by an assumption that at twenty years of ago one has reached the goal already...
...trade discontinued its practice of collecting and publishing each month statistics as to the amount of surplus copper held by refiners and producers. At the time it was felt that the large copper stocks being carried simply operated to hold down the price of the red metal, and that discreet silence was a better policy than embarassing frankness, if higher copper prices were to be seen. Since the discontinuance of the monthly reports of surplus copper, therefore, only quarterly reports have been issued...
...staff of the Hospital to attend to "the small things in every single department that could possibly contribute the best work-from the initial diagnosis to the use of the knife." Thrifty, but not businesslike, he has left to his brother the management of their donations and of that discreet but widespread publicity which taught the world the excellence of the mousetraps of Rochester. Charles is inflexible in body as in brain. When asked to face the camera, he leaves his feet planted in the direction they are taking, rotates his chunky body solemnly from the hips. His brother...
...discreet and inaccessible nook of Hyde Park, London, Premier Stanley Baldwin unveiled, last week, a memorial to Naturalist W. H. Hudson by Sculptor Jacob Epstein. As the sheet that swaddled the work was drawn aside, a murmer of horror went up from the onlookers, many of whom, it was noticed, were old men-dignified seigneurs, others whose peaked countenances and obvious irascibility made it clear that they could come under no definition other than that of curmudgeon. They aimed trembling fingers at a panel of the memorial which was said to represent Rima, bird-nymph, a character in Hudson...
...Some of us, therefore, intend to celebrate our Yale anniversary in Montreal, with discreet and well-ordered dinners, such as are customary and lawful in civilized societies; and by staying away from New Haven...