Word: lifeless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more exceptions low than high and it is the present intention to point out that large courses suffer as much from the studious pre-occupation of section men as the small ones do from the scholarly inclinations of professors. It is, moreover, true that the evil of lifeless section men is the mere deplorable because they officiate in almost all freshman courses. Despite occasional lectures from on high, they tend to typify Harvard pedagogy in the eyes of the newcomers. It is thus that active aversion to learning is surely be gun at the beginning of college life...
...these things, worrying as he pushed the little cart loaded with eels, haddock, cod, halibut, swordfish, Vanzetti spent his mornings . . . weighting-out fish...." The fish peddler worried because a few days before, on a fine cool May morning in the year 1920, a body had been found-smashed lifeless on the pavement in front of a Department of Justice office-the body of another anarchist, a printer. This printer had been arrested for de- portation during the anti-Red hysteria. The man had jumped or been pushed from a 14th floor window. Anarchist Vanzetti, having read the news, joked little...
...moments the children emerged from the woodshed into the yard, bearing between them what was to all appearances the lifeless remains of small Nathan Ellison. They deposited their burden on the kitchen floor and adorned its limpness with two sunflowers...
...cheers are not the basic thing. And unless he finds in his sacrifice a genuine glimpse of the true value of his loyalty, an idea of the work that is being done, of the changing standards, of the growing spirit, his totem becomes but a dry and lifeless symbol, the very negation of that driving force which makes totems the foundations of the social world...
...damning the play," the growing attitude of the T. B. M. coincident with the rise of industrialism, the conservatism of the pit, the popularity of triple bills, the indulgence of the audiences in Old Price riots--such a picture might easily have become a confusing mass of detail and lifeless documentation, but from them all Prof. Watson, as the result of much reflection upon an astonishing amount of materials and an exhaustive research among theatrical relics, constructs a beautifully organized exposition, with convenient summaries for those who grow tired of the pageant and frequent reiteration of his thesis that...