Word: evil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nolen's policy, as outlined by one of his associates, was always: "play the game square". And although tutoring schools in general were often denounced as inventions of the evil one, and worse, "the Widow's" was always let alone. Campaigns were carried on against the distributors of printed notes, but not against him. For his school never sold notes. He obtained his success by his skill, shrewdness, and power of teaching,--openly and without any suggestion of "intellectual bootlegging...
...Harry spoke again in conclusion of the need for close friendship between Englishmen and Americans. "We speak the same language, and we eat the same food," he said. "It's only the forces of evil and ignorance that keep us apart...
Whereas, the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage is productive of pauperism, degradation and crime, and believing it is our duty to discourage that which produces more evil than good, we therefore pledge ourselves to abstain from the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage...
...tale which is embodied in I Compagnacci ("The Evil Companions") is laid in Florence during the days of Savonarola and around the historical episode in which the reformer monk defied his enemies to trial by fire. He and a rival monk would walk through a blazing pyre, the one who emerged unscathed would be pronounced by Heaven to be right...
Until lately the seven o'clock morning bell was practically the only disturbance of slumber that the senior was forced to endure. He protested many times to this, but in vain. Finally he learned to ignore the bell, for it, at least, was regular, and a seemingly necessary evil. But, recently, many seniors have adopted the custom of yelling in concert at an average hour of midnight the one word "Reinhardt" across the Yard, and yelling it in as many keys and as loudly as possible. And, worst of all, men returning from dances at twelve and one o'clock...