Word: downrightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must go into politics properly to serve the .public; library wagons and traveling libraries help educate the populace ; adult education should begin with antievolutionists; the old library idea was "culture," the new is "information"-let libraries enlarge that part of their service which furnishes printed matter dealing chiefly with downright fact, i.e., newspapers, magazines, commercial and scientific books...
...candidate to succeed Oscar W. Underwood-Underwood the conservative, Underwood who opposed Prohibition, Underwood who had little liking for the Democratic advances to the insurgent Republicans in the last Congress. Perhaps Alabama may elect a Senator as eloquently verbose as Heflin, or a fireeater like Harrison, or a damnation-downright man like Robinson, but it is not likely that they will discover another well-poised, equably disposed, able man such as Mr. Underwood. Indeed, had he chosen to run again, he would undoubtedly have had a hard fight and probably been beaten. But Mr. Underwood chooses to retire...
Judging by newspaper accounts of it, the annual freshman riot at Yale was a great success. As institutions, a class spread, or a picnic, or a jubilee may be well enough in their way, but Yale freshmen are sure that for downright fun a good, democratic riot, with bonfires to dance around, and bottles to throw, and instructors to throw at--why there's no comparison...
...Church. "Latterly, into the public eye has been thrust an open propaganda that shocks the moral sense of every true follower of Christ. Christian sentiment against it has found expression in the law of the land forbidding the dissemination of the knowledge of its practices. Yet the downright perversion of human cooperation with the Creator in the propagation of the human family is openly advocated and defended...
...principal lecture rooms in Langdell Hall", he says, "and the three principal lecture rooms in Austin Hall, the capacity indicated is to he had only by crowding in extra chairs man extent which is not consistent with convenient use of the rooms, and in some instances is downright unsafe. In two lecture rooms it has been necessary to put in chairs with no bench or arm upon which to write. Obviously such a condition impairs the effectiveness of the teaching...