Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unique cramming gimmick, will open inauspiciously tomorrow. For many, only the longer morning slumber hours will mark its advent. Others' dreams may be marred, however, by the examination specter and visions of three-hour sessions over blue books in sultry classrooms. Although the examination itself is a necessary evil in the large university, its procedure here seems to be the University's unique anachronism in the Machine Age. The Administration has repeatedly resisted any attempts to make exam-taking less tedious by allowing skilled students to type their examinations in special rooms...
Niebuhr's sermon, the text of which was the parable of the Pharisees and publicans, urged that goodness and self-realization cannot be truly attained if they are too actively sought after, and suggested that too sharp a distinction between good and evil was unwise, because "the taint of evil against which we contend is in us also...
...books. But he soon realized that to be a judge of correctness was no easy job. "So commonly," he noted, "but not always, we exhort to good actions, we instigate to ill we animate incite and encourage indifferently to good or bad. So we usually ascribe good but impute evil, yet neither the use of these words nor perhaps of any other in our licentious language is so established as not to be often reversed by the correctest writers." Even pronunciation sometimes stumped him. "Lord Chesterfield told me that the word great should be pronounced so as to rhyme...
Sibley soon had filled the library with his purchases. After President Eliot announced in 1877 that, "The want of space in Gore Hall is a more and more oppressing evil," the building got its first renovation and a new librarian, Mr. Justin Winsor, as well. He revolutionized the library by installing stacks, the first in America, and starting a more frugal and practical policy of book purchasing...
Those who sided with the President thought that the uncertainty about U.S. intentions was a lesser evil than the havoc an announcement would create in both strategy and politics. If the President announced his decision, the Communists would have a definite line behind which they would have sanctuary. If the President said that the U.S. will defend the islands, he would immediately be denounced as a warmonger; if he announced the opposite, he would be called an appeaser...