Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most modest man, Mr. Baker had discouraged all efforts to recognize his services in this fashion. Since last September the medal had been waiting for him but, until last week, he kept out of Washington to avoid its acceptance...
Again we must congratulate the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art on their intelligent selection of a significant lot of material varying widely in character. And what is of fundamental importance, they have arranged these objects in eminently successful and effective fashion...
...many a year now have fashions been cruel to the heavy. With dress designers concentrating on eliminating all the differences between the shadow cast by a woman and the shadow cast by a barber's pole, women of generous poundage have been consistently unfortunate. Present fashion forecasts, it is true, predict that the straight line will this year make some concessions to the curve. But even such contours as may be established will probably be willowy rather than rotund, graceful rather than pronounced...
...synthesis of a lifetime of reading and travel into a plausible system for directing civilization; as such it may appeal to Harvard men unsatisfied with the specific details of daily classes and the restricted subjects of their theses. For those who like to discuss in leisurely fashion the facts and philosophies of history and their bearing on current problems of religion and on such personal problems as fraternities, and who wish to formulate standards of judgment and conduct, this book should be a stimulus, presenting as it does much wide-ranging information with the common sense of an American gentleman
MANKIND likes to cling to its superstitions and mysteries as long as it can, and Dr. Hawes goes at the task of tearing them away from the medical profession as if he expected to be accused of sacrilege. But it is the fashion nowadays to reduce science into terms intelligible to the layman, and his tone of frankness will be appreciated by those who want to understand the causes and reasons for their ailments...