Word: gradualism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conditions in the "poor farm of American journalism", as he characterized Boston in an earlier work on the press of this country. It would be interesting to hear a well-informed person speak on the too close connection of the "Herald" with the big banking interests and the gradual sensationalization and cheapening of its news columns recently, within the outer shell of its respectable typography and make-up. It would be a pleasant boon to Bean-town if the good-natured but generally sloppy "Globe" could be prodded into over-coming its reluctance to tamper with its golden formula...
...development even more sinister than the external aspects of commercialism in intercollegiate sport, and at the same time an apparent offshoot of them, is the gradual change in the psychological attitude of the undergraduate toward those mores that once were considered the essentials of good sportsmanship. If this phenomenon were evidenced only at Princeton in such recent unpleasant flurries of booing as at the Yale hockey game and the Penn basketball game, we might possibly have regarded it as a momentary and localized lapse from gentlemanly conduct which would not soon recur. But with disturbing remembrance of similar demonstrations...
...stood at the halfway mark in his first and perhaps last term. Behind him lay two years of the hardest work this hard-working man had ever done, of noisy quarreling with a cantankerous Congress, of heartbreaking economic misfortune, of a blighting natural curse, of a gradual loss of popular favor. Ahead of him lay a rocky road to 1932 when he would either vindicate himself by renomination and re-election or go into the discard of defeat as a presidential failure...
...broadly influential. They take cognizance of the variety of forces bearing on the whole athletic situation. No one would dare affirm that Harvard sports are simon pure. The privileges given to players and the care bestowed on first string men are are too well known. But in the gradual attempt to put sports on the mythical healthy basis, the combined and sometimes dissociated efforts of players, athletic heads, and faculty officials produce a continual advance in building up a sane athletic program...
Creditors of defunct Prince & Whitely last week received 25? on $1 in cash, also certificates in a corporation which hopes to pay the remaining 75?by gradual liquidation of remaining assets...