Word: lightening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should be carried. Some seem to think that it is not necessary for a fellow to leave school at the end of the week and go home or seek some other form of diversion. Others think it a wise plan to allow these week-ends because they tend to lighten one and prepare one for the work of the following week in others words, a complete change from the week-day schedule...
...minimizing his importance--with the natural result. Dwindling in his own eyes, he reasserts himself, though that is at first a bit difficult. He cannot subtract one cubit from the stature of those collegiate halls whose very size and costliness and grandeur overawe and humiliate him. He cannot lighten by so much as an ounce the pressure of undergraduate opinion, which, finding him not only insignificant but at numerous points objectionable, sets out to work him over into conformity with standard design. But the professors, who have somehow an air of owning the institution and owning him--those, at least...
Professor Wright gives a clear lecture full of good material. However, he cannot lighten it by anecdotes or any other touches which are not strictly concerned with the subject matter; for in one half a year he has to cover all American Constitutional History from the calling of the Constitutional Convention to the present time. The classes are relieved now and then by discussions of cases of the U. S. Supreme Court which are less boring if less enlightening...
Meanwhile in the Belgica Capt. Ernest de Muyter (fourtimes winner) with Leon Coeckelbaerg fought lightning, snow and loss of altitude. All ballast gone, Coeckelbaerg slid down the drag rope into a tree to lighten the load, but the bag settled at Adams, Mass., a 435 mi. mark. For the co-pilot's heroism, disqualification was threatened...
...pajamas in city streets. It was by public discussion that night-work for women was banned, that the 12-hour day was abolished, and that child labor was barred. It was by exposing dirty linen that public opinion arose and forced, the dictatorial coal companies of Pennsylvania to lighten their tyrannical oppression over the coal miners, and caused labor unions to be recognized everywhere. Public discussion has been the moving cause of nearly every great reform and should be used here to help the University catch up with the world and humanize its employment policy...