Word: gapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This conception of the University as a vast hive of little brain cells has of course great value as an antidote for the football, pleasure and leisure mad undergraduate. Before many the academic muse can only gape, sigh, and pass on. For these even the shining example of France is of no avail. All that is left to those who scorn the battle of the books is the "paradise of the shirker and the drifter". An examination, of this paradise would be interesting. To the casual observer it might well be summarized by a rough sketch depicting Don Juan...
...women (not children) who stopped to gaze and gape were hailed from the doorway by a clerk. Shouted he. though a traffic policeman was on duty less than 50 feet distant: "Come in friends! We're selling wide open! Just got $30,000 worth of stuff...