Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like to know just what is the purpose of Mr. Cohen's letter. Several perusals of it have yielded no basis for a conclusion, except that it is a specimen of "mud-slinging" and a poor one at that. The statements couched in magnificent sarcasm, are ridiculous in their gross exaggeration, and for that reason it is needless to stoop to refute any of them...
...Work, shrewd businessmen and active Democrats charged gross negligence. Republicans varied in their opinions and said he had been either unfortunate or thickheaded. Most embarrassing to Dr. Work was the comment of the strongly pro-Hoover New York Telegram, leader of the 26 Scripps-Howard chain-papers. Said the Telegram: "Stupidity is the most charitable interpretation. . . . Dr. Hubert Work is a liability, not an asset, to Herbert Hoover. . . . It has long been our opinion that Work is a lightweight. . . . Herbert Hoover would immeasurably strengthen his position with millions of American voters if he would drop that particular pilot...
...with actual ratios. In 22 states, the Literary Digest's figures predicting what percentage of the Coolidge vote the Davis vote would be, put the Davis vote from 10% to 48% too low. Had the 1924 election not been a Coolidge landslide, contended Critic Franklin, these gross errors in popular vote would have been reflected in the electoral result...
...into disrepute by the bunk of the day But this being the situation it can only be increased by appeals that openly make Babbit baiting and cash the attraction of what passes for unselfish philanthropy. The undergraduate who would naturally turn to such work has not suddenly become a gross materialist But he is necessarily a creature of his age, and repelled by the shabby hypocrisy and business charlatanism that have invaded the domains of service, has poused his enthusiasm in broader fields...
Your failure to call your readers' attention to the gross misrepresentations of figures adopted as a campaign expedient by one of the presidential candidates indicates that the editors of the present board are not alive. And if the editors must have their joke, why not poke a little fun at what Al Smith calls Mr. Hoover's "statistical essays"? At least, the editors will be calling attention to the fact that Harvard College is surrounded by a nation. L. O. Pratt...