Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undergraduates is to arrange a petting ±party in their digs, lay in a supply of strong drink "to which the girls are not likely to be accustomed." dim the lights. . . . For "furtive immorality" Muckraker Briant blames the Puritan views of proctors. One signpost of progress: "Homosexuality is no longer a requirement for social success in the university...
Jokes are fine things if they are funny. But if they injure or scare or build up phobias in the victims, jokes are no longer funny though they may still be side-splitting to bystanders. Of such calibre was the hoax attempted against some Freshmen this week. To receive notice that he has contracted a social disease is not a laughing matter to a young man especially when the notice appears to come from a scource as business-like and straightforward as the Hygiene Department. It is too likely to be taken seriously, and the ensuing worry and doubt...
Asked about changing trends in modern standards of journalism, Mr. Wells was of the opinion that American journalists were following the rebellion of American authors. "Journalists are no longer wearing blinkers," he said, approving realistic reporting. Some writers he felt were too rough-and-ready but added that these were a necessary evil which went along with the progress of making the newspapers tell the truth. "We must get rid of gentility," he declared...
...Jesus' life is unexpectedly mild, unexpectedly orthodox on miracles and other matters which do not impinge on social revolution. Of Feeding the Five Thousand, Father Noel says, "Is it too fanciful to suggest that ... we have a picture of an ordered society in which men will no longer grasp for themselves, and trample on each other in their competition for food. . . ." But find abundance in production, distribution and obedience "to the bountiful Father." To Father Noel, the most dangerous corruption of the Christian faith lies in pietism, "the religion taught as Christianity by many 'Catholics,' Eastern, Roman...
...ancient, lumbering Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, recently rebuilt, taxied nearly two miles on the sea off Port Lyautey, Morocco, finally got into the air, remained there with its crew of six under veteran Pilot Henri Guillaumet until it had reached Maceio, Brazil, a nonstop seaplane flight 154 miles longer than the record of 3,281 miles, established by Lieut. Commander Knefler McGinnis between Cristobal Harbor, C. Z. and San Francisco Bay in October...