Word: humbler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the exams came, lo what a change was there! He took the assignment and gave it to one of the humbler members of his staff. The slave took the books and retired into the silence, returning presently with the content of the course chewed, thoroughly digested, and regurgitated upon five or six type-written sheets for our hero's convenience...
...paradox flourishes in the wind of metaphysics and knowledge fades into the unknown-to clock the flight of star-clouds, chop the atom's nucleus into mathematical hash or chase the primordial life-germ through a thicket of test tubes. Some workers must patrol the vales & swales where humbler things may be found beneath any stone. Such upturned stones in recent weeks disclosed the following...
...Humbler and bigger Kentucky Military Institute ($950 tuition, 225 enrollment) was established at Franklin Springs, Ky. in 1845. It moved to Lyndon, Ky. a half-century ago, went on the move two years ago when its headmaster Colonel Charles Blair Richmond bought a Depression-crippled resort hotel and a block of stores at Venice, Fla., whither K. M. I. repairs every January...
...undergraduate college. His desire to raise scholastic standards should be supported, his research is necessary if the University is to live up to its name as the greatest institution of higher learning in the United States; but the balance has been thrown off between these two and the humbler but more important tasks of teaching and inspiring all students of varying degrees of brilliance...
...bashful recruit can shuffle about and decide for himself whether he would look better in the gaudy stockings of the Gordon Highlanders, the befrogged jackets of the Royal Horse Artillery, the white-plumed bearskin of the Royal Scots Greys, the brass helmets of the Royal Dragoons. Those who choose humbler regiments are handed new undress or "walking out'' uniforms that make them look almost as spruce as Guardsmen...