Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems a harsh saying or even inappropriate at this time to emphasize the point that not all men are entitled to the advantages of the higher education, still the importance of the fact requires the statement of it; and if any man here claims the privilege without intention of utilizing its benefits for his own intellectual advancement and for the benefit of society at large, he not only sells the patrimony. which might be his, for a mess of pottage, but he as truly denies to Dartmouth the opportunity of rendering to society the full service the college desires...
...crude in execution, is an interesting crude in execution, is an interesting example of Spanish work of the period. The other Spanish picture is a figure of Saint christopher crossing the stream bearing the Christ Child on his shoulders, the figure of the Saint showing the spare form and harsh contours characteristic of the Spanish work...
...glorification of college athletics has done much to establish the habit of athletics. It has also helped establish an illusion of life that makes harsh physical effort the thing; even after men go from the campus into business or the professions. . . . The vicious effect of it is this, that it tends to usurp all of one's waking hours and to cast them into activity, banishing that needed and delightful twilight zone of reverie and reflection that naturally intervenes between work and slumber. . . . The one who invented the crawly term of "lounge-lizard" is no friend of mine...
...committee of five men elected by the Norwegian Storthing to confer the Nobel Prize is far more likely that we to place President Wilson where he properly ranks--above the place our harsh opinions would assign and below that suggested by the adoration of war-stricken peoples. The whole country will-feel proud to know that for the third time a citizen of the United States has been judged by the Norwegian committee to be worthy of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize...
...their leaders are false prophets their curses will be transformed into blessings and their idle words will fall as rain from the duck's back and prove as barren as the seed in the sands of the Sahara. At all events, calling your opponent names, attributing to him harsh epithets, and gloating over his misery, any such action is not American and does not help to clear up the issue. JOSEP: S. SHUBOW...