Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Noyes, who wrote the interesting matter regarding the recent "B. Y. O." invitations of the Associated Harvard Clubs, has the idea, not expressed in his letter, that "it is fashionable for Harvard undergraduates to be wet. One hesitates to disagree with this, although it is undoubtedly true that in this respect, as indeed in most, the unfashionable greatly outnumber the fashionable. But the reasons for the fashion, which has been more condemned than studied, deserve investigation...
Georgia won the Southern Conference championship last year and with a veteran team Coach White expects his charges to repeat this spring. The team has started the season in whirlwind fashion. Before starting on its present trip it won seven victories in eight starts. It downed Dartmouth 6 to 2, pitcher Sale, likely to be on the mound today, setting the Wah-Hoo-Wah;s down with six seattered hits. The University of Michigan had still less success, losing 10 to 3 and 6 to 0 to the Southerners. Alabama pinned an 8 to 2 defeat on Georgia a week...
There are a dozen tales in the collection and the reader's hair slowly rises until absolutely perpendicular to the scalp. Those whose hair naturally bristles six of the stories it will brush and lie flat in the meekest fashion imaginable...
...fashion of "exposing" universities has become so extraordinarily popular of late that those who by reason of venerability or austere dignity can feel secure and self-satisfied are few indeed. Americans, realizing all too clearly the defects and handicaps of their own system, look abroad with idolatrous eyes, and often find, in the differing methods of foreign universities, the remedies best suited for their own ills. But that Oxford and Cambridge may have their own inherent evils is an idea which one is disinclined to accept...
Especially in recent years it has become the fashion for everyone except, in most cases, the scientists, to regard Science, with a large S--as a kind of Juggernaut or Frankenstein before whose blind onrush mankind is inevitably doomed to destruction. What were once considered triumphs of mind over matter have become victories of the machine over man, horribly portrayed in Vanity Fair woodcuts and the magazine supplements of Sunday newspapers. And the ever increasing momentum of scientific progress has startled philosophers out of pleasant and meaningless speculation into the discovery that even the thin air out of which they...