Word: gazing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the ramifications of grading systems would require tedious explanations to disgruntled students. This is unfortunate. Nevertheless, a ruthless examination of the foundations of this ancient refusal will reveal that its roots lie deeply imbedded in laziness. The very fact that all bluebooks are not forever lost to undergraduate gaze once the ink has dried is evidence enough that common sense and an understanding of a defensible curiosity in the student has supplanted unreasonable and unreasoning tradition in the minds of some...
...novel-addict, seemed to herald the coming of a genuine U. S. writer. But thereafter, in shoddy book after book, Author Stong showed where his heart was and where his treasure lay. By last week no intelligent reader had to be told that Phil Stong's eager gaze was bent not on Parnassus but on the hills of Hollywood...
...knew, the first photographs of a Caesarean section ever to appear in a lay journal. Down on his head that day and for several days thereafter beat the expected storm of criticism. Irate citizens charged him with bad taste, with needlessly shocking his readers, with exposing to public gaze an extremely private and intimate incident. Especially voluble were mothers including one whose small son had brought the pictures into her bridge club meeting, asked for an explanation. But an equal number of citizens, including physicians, told him how interesting they had found the pictures, congratulated him warmly on a first...
...present crisis, his use of war as an instrument of national policy, similarly depends upon the Briand-Kellogg Pact of 1928. From the vantage ground of these two lofty technicalities, Sir Eric Drummond, the Ambassador of Victoria's grandson, was entitled to gaze reproachfully upon Benito Mussolini last week and did in fact so gaze...
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