Word: lukewarmness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very much akin to this problem of the artisan. One of the greatest questions confronting the deans of Harvard Yale, and Princeton is that of undergraduate-aviators. At Princeton, the students are no longer allowed to have airplanes. At Yale and Harvard, undergraduate flying clubs flourish under very lukewarm official approval. In both communities, the clubs have become exceedingly popular. Their members are adroit and expert aviators, but, for the most part, lamentable scholars. The academic mortality of members of the flying clubs far outruns that of the pedestrian students; and naturally enough, for the members spend so much...
Seemingly considering that he had done a good week's work in obtaining the lukewarm informal acquiescence of 27 nations. Prime Minister Briand presently left Geneva, returned to Paris, received the formal assent of his Cabinet to what he had done. Then he went off to his farm at Concherel on the coast of Normandy for a brief vacation. "I shall probably take a short sea trip in a very small yacht," he said, "the smaller the better, for the sea was my first love...
Undergraduate opinion, tinged with Congressional maturity should form a conglomerate whole whose significance the national broadcasting chains cannot well afford to overlook. The only sad thing about the affair is the lukewarm attitude of the press in giving it inner page columns and cuts. Ostensibly for educational purpose, its national importance deserves a better fate at the hands of the Fourth Estate. The practical value of having things thrashed out from the Peruvian, Swedish or Roumanian point of view by their respective North Dakotan, Ohioan and Minnesotan representatives is inestimable...
...article attempting to break down sales resistance on the part of lukewarm candidates for the ministry was contributed to the North American Review by the Right Reverend James Henry Darlington, of the Episcopal diocese of Harrisburg, Pa. The Christian Century summarized the Bishop's sales-talk as follows...
Although a large section of the Chamber rose cheering, at this remark, the Italian Ambassador at Paris, Count Manzoni, was reported vexed that M. Briand had chosen so lukewarm a phrase as "without displeasure." Next morning obliging Aristide Briand declared that he had actually said "with pleasure," and the official stenographic record of the Chamber was altered accordingly...