Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Agriculture. Sown area was 10% greater; gross value of crops increased 4.5% at pre-War prices and 150% at current prices; hog and cattle increased 64% and from 5% to 10% respectively...
...exhibition, one gets a glimpse of a chalk-faced friend from the Folies Bergeres with gross, pursy mouth and smudged eyes; apaches that glare and glide in the galvanic paint as if rehearsing for a cinema; a group posed, with the sterile absurdity of wax figures, about a table; a bristling gendarme, unable to decide whether to arrest a reveller or have a drink with him; a deputy compounded of a too-small black hat and too many brown whiskers; a lady with a green shadow upon her face...
Score, Harvard 5, Princeton 4. Goals, Austin 3, Chase, Wilkinson, Scull 3, Davis. Penalties, Hamlen, Davis, Scull, Taylor. Referees, Wiggett, Stewart. Time, three 20-minute periods. HARVARD PRINCETON Austin, Gross l.w. r.w. Scull, Hallock Hodder, Zarakov c. c. Davis, Pittman Beals, Hamlen r.w. l.w. Stout, Wilkinson Howard, Pratt l.d. r.d. Trenholm Chase r.d. l.d. Wilkinson, Taylor Cummings g. g. Pepper
...players who underscored too heavily, and possibly the stickler who exaggerated, so finely did the action cut to the truth. In the second act, and indeed throughout the play, the purist would cavil at the lapses into broad relief; too often cleverness passed for wit, and gross business for eyebrow innuendo. For the over-dramatic, Mr. Rathbone, in the tutor's role, was the only possible offender. It was naturally as difficult for him to disclose his smouldering fires to the audience as it was for him to do so to his idol. In his scenes with Miss La Gallienne...
When a professor decides before an examination what percentage of the class he will flunk, what percentage he will pass and what proportion of honor grades he will give, he lays himself open to a charge of gross injustice. To the student who dares complain he replies either that he is held down to the rules by a superior, or that he believes it the only satisfactory system. He can not, or will not, take into account the merit of the individual student. A man who writes an "A" paper thus receives a "B" simply because several other men wrote...