Word: fritter
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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...
...several of the athletic squads the members are required to make out schedules covering all their waking hours. While many students regard such a schedule with instinctive distaste, they may still benefit from the moral which the system emphasizes. The college man is prone to fritter away time...
...undergraduates would take part in intercollegiate athletics to a certain extent; possibly somewhat more than at present. But this form of amusement could never occupy the spare time of all the students as intercollegiate athletics now do. Instead of watching games in the open air many undergraduates would fritter away their time in card-playing, theatre-going, and in vicious forms of dissipation...