Word: fritter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some say that when a man enters a university he has reached the age when it is up to him to decide whether he is to make the most of his time spent there or whether he is to fritter it away, together with his family's money. This, they say, is the principle on which English universities operate, and toward which Harvard has been inclining...
...farmers' demand were not insistent, it is doubtful whether the Administration would ever have favored the Tincher bill, because there is some doubt whether the revolving fund will revolve or will merely fritter away into frozen loans. Many farmers do not want their co-operatives to be saddled with these loans, much preferring a gift of $375,000,000 at once, and then a division of any losses above that by means of the tax against all producers...
There now lay the tumor, big as a baseball, looking like a sloppily rounded corn fritter. A few judicious slashes and it was free. Back went the excised meninges. Back the bone. Back the flap or scalp. Sutures there were. The operation was a success, a triumph...
...Holmes advises taking sightseeing busses through the cities visited. Most people fritter away their time, he said, because they do not know where to go. It is better for sightseeing purposes to be conducted about in a scientifically managed sightseeing tour...
Among the many hoary traditions of the University, handed down from a long forgotten past, is the inflexible rule that a senior shall take four courses. Apparently it has always been thought that a man will fritter away his time unless that time is sufficiently taken up with educational work of the sort on which the college office can keep a careful check. This may have been true in the days when the elective system was at the height of its untrammeled glory. Not so now, however, for with the more rigid application of the concentration and distribution requirements...