Word: harshe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is nothing in the philosophy of Liberalism," said Sir John, "inconsistent with the facing of new facts in a changing world. ... I have completely changed my point of view that tariffs are of no value for purposes of negotiating. ... It is a crude harsh method, but it appears under the circumstances to be the only method, and it is effective...
...undergraduate. Probation has always had an inherent resemblance to the hickory switch and the dunce's stool, the trappings of Tom Brown education. Its disciplining fear softens the student too lax to depend on his own morale. Its interference with extra-curricular activities dates back to those harsh eras of compulsory chapel and the sideburn...
Admitting that she had no complaint against the Harvard Freshmen, Catherine Warner, ex-Union waitress, assailed the harsh disciplinary conditions in the Freshman dining hall in a statement to the CRIMSON last night. The bombastic reports which have been appearing in the Daily Record were over-emphasized, she asserted, but maintained that they were based on facts, although she had not believed that they would be taken so seriously...
...readers who enjoy vigorous writing will be glad to be rubbed the wrong way by Spengler's harsh aphorisms: "If few can stand long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace. . . . The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give his life for it. ... Let it for once be said outright, though it is a slap in the face for the vulgarity of the age: property is not a vice, but a gift, and a gift such as few possess...
However laudable the principle, unglossed is the harsh fact that this University, the avowed intention of which is to procure men of the highest calibre for our faculty, has birked the opportunity to secure any of the best thirty-one of twelve hundred German scholars, among them Nobel prize winners. This group of men was probably of the type named "creative scholars," of whom the University is by its own tacit admission so much in need...