Word: markedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brief. Dr. Rogers' statement that scholastic grades in the United States are the mark of the Dunce cap is exaggerated. Many difficulties arise in marking, but some sort of measurement of achievement is an absolute necessity, and the thing to do is not to throw out the baby with the water you wash...
TIME'S use of "lagniappe'' (Sept. 23, p. 13), easily a dollar's worth of word and unfortunately not included in many abridged dictionaries, recalls Mark Twain who, in Life on the Mississippi reported pickling up an excellent word, worth traveling to New Orleans to get-"a nice, limber, impressive, handy word-'Lagniappe.' They pronounce it lanny...
...Milton Ticknor, W. D. '31 Guard 22 187 6. Milton Trafford, W. B.'32 Tackle 19 187 6.1 St. Paul's Trainer, J. N., Jr. '31 Guard 20 190 5.11 Exeter Upton, T. G. '31 Tackle 21 200 6.5 Milton Wetmore, W. T. '30 Back 22 160 5.8 St. Mark's White, B. D. '32 Back 20 170 5.9 New Prop. Wood, W. B., Jr. '32 Back 19 176 6.1 Milton
...that the Yard will presently have its autumn bronze and gold mixed with the gray of uniforms during the few minutes that mark the yearly visit of the West Pointers, he realizes what a tradition the Army game has acquired in the short time it has become again a feature of the Harvard football season. The Vagabond for one has come to look forward to it as one of the few colorful interludes in the college year, and once it has come and gone the noises and the smells that afflict a university around which a crowded city has grown...
...forward insight into human behavior as the basis of a code of conduct instead of the principles derived from religion. "What manner of church is it that can appeal to souls living in this age? It is only a worshipping, teaching, practicing, creative church whose members are prepared to mark themselves off from all outsiders by a different manner of life affecting all their financial, domestic, civic and social relations, forcing them into constant protest against the present sub-Christian* order and making them ready to dare all for Christ's sake...