Word: dosed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What's the use of studying History anyway?" the modern skeptic is apt to declare, particularly if the impressions of his school days are fresh in his mind, and if he has had an over-dose of the "drum-and-trumpet" brand of History or of the genealogical and chronological table variety. "History is just a chaos of inconsequential facts", he is likely to add, "not the thousandth part of which is worth remembering. History has no laws that can be deduced from this welter of facts and applied for practical purposes, unless it be for a few vague generalizations...
...cover is adept, and the mock advertisements so good (or the genuine ones so bad) that it is hard to tell which is what, There is no moral; but the society magazine, of which "Town and Country" is only one of a kind, gets its full and deserved dose of satire in this number. And the High Society that is mirrored in those magazines, along with the Lower Society that "takes it all in" comes in for an incidental share of ridicule...
...delegates to this convention of communists who are the avowed foes of capitalism, nationalism, and militarism have been treated to a big dose of Russian nationalism and militarism in the shape of several colossal military reviews of the crack Red Army, newly equipped from head to foot, and attended by all the cheering the display of national pride that only a splendid martial review can call forth. To this the delegates merely observed that their parties at home would be inspired by the example of the Red Army to give battle unflinchingly, a countenancing of militarism which is certainly...
...tirade. Lampy, I think--and I am not alone in this opinion--, is at a point of development which is nearer to the type of a professional humorous publication, however, than any other representative of collegiate wit, and I think also that Mr. Code, if he takes a dose of pepsin and another look at the sheet, will agree with me. I am, sir, Yours etc, G. EMMONS '16 Concord...
...value of odds and ends. It seems to be a general impression that a student can take a slight dab or economics, a dash of sociology, a salting of rhetoric and literature, a minute sprinkling of precious stones, creative listening, fine arts, and what not, and a very medium dose of languages, and come out quite the University concoction. Glimpses and vistas, not real understanding, are being recommended for the "broad" college course. The student is getting the merest taste of the elementals of everything, and dropping the threads where they begin. His thinking comes to a halt where...