Word: imperfectly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Bates was not a stiff enough opponent, however, to show up the weak spots in the eleven. The northerners bore little resemblance to the scrappy team which faced Harvard last year, holding her to two touchdowns. The opponents were amateurish, imperfect in signals, and weak in the line. They could not gain consistently by either massed or open plays, and only three times held the ball on the Crimson side of the 50-yard line, never penetrating nearer than 25 yards. In the second quarter, time was called when Bates had just gotten into position for an attempt...
...people of the country do not want Mexico, which would mean years of guerilla fighting and worry. Neither do they want war. In the present imperfect state of civilization, however, war is at times a necessity; the progress of universal peace has been and will be infinitely slow. And when the United States is responsible not only for its own interests, but, through the Monroe Doctrine, for the interests of other nations among a people, disorganized and semi-barbarous, as the Mexicans, war may become inevitable. The Administration can afford a certain amount of ridicule from foreign state departments...
...suffering. The article contains sound distinctions and acute observations, but it is marred by some pretentiousness in tone and certain defects of style. These last are such as perennially affect the cleverer kinds of undergraduate criticism--the use of a vocabulary sometimes merely precious, sometimes employed with an imperfect sense of idiom. But such annoyances are perhaps only inevitable growing pains, and they do not cancel one's satisfaction in such evidences of intellectual activity as Mr. Seldes's eassy undoubtedly presents. The only piece of verse in the number, Mr. Greene's "The Heritage," is flat and prosaic...
...President Taft took a middle position on the question of parties and principles, declaring that at present, parties, though imperfect, afford the only practical means of interpreting the opinion of the voters. The main theme of his address, however, concerned the present coition of the courts. He declared that "in many places the administration of civil justice is a disgrace to this country. In the western states, particularly, the people have harmed the courts to an extent that is almost irremediable. The same change that has characterized the wanton election of judges has extended to other offices...
Greek philosophy from Plato to Plotinus tried to reach its solution through reason by the conception of general ideas of which reality is mere imperfect correspondence. Reality was thus considered inferior to the idea, action inferior to contemplation. But this did not rescue the individual soul from death, since the "idea" was general, not individual...