Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heroine will bear even more enthusing. She flashed into the movie public's eye not long ago when she showed more--more talent that is--than did the American Venus in the "American Venus." An adequately fleshed gentleman who was seated at our right, and who proclaimed himself no mean judge of feminine pulchritude, asserted more-over that she has "it," and we could see no good reason for disagreeing with him on that count. The concensus of masculine opinion, which after all is the only worth while opinion in these matters and which was garnered during our progress from...
...years ago a Toronto writer faked a story of the discovery by two Swedish scientists, Drs. Smierkase and Butterbrod, of the skeleton of a fish large enough to have swallowed Jonah. Toronto papers refused the yarn, for "Smierkase" and "Butterbrod" too transparently mean "soft cheese" and "butter bread." However, at the Fundamentalist convention, the clever writer found his opportunity, sent the manuscript without comment to a Dr. Brown, who based his main argument for the authenticity of the Jonah story on this "discovery." Toronto papers this time reported Dr. Brown and his "proof." Then they were told of the hoax...
This does not mean that the other seven have been failures, it merely means that the trained engineer's mind is demanded by all branches of activity; that the professional training is used as a stepping-stone to other great things...
...Pacific slope, but Houser of Southern California, the Olympic champion, and Gerkin of California probably will know they have been in battle before emerging from the week-end competition. Houser is a great little man. He is one of the three wonderful small men, and by small men I mean less than 190 pounds, who have made history in the I. C. A. A. A. A. shot putting competition. The others are Beattle of Columbia and B. F. Whitney of Dartmouth, whose places carried them to the crest before...
What will a greater emphasis upon the possible development of the mind to see and understand more quickly and accurately mean in terms of the work of the classes. May it mean that our class-rooms will more and more become places in which the students rather than the teachers perform? May it mean that usually the best teacher will be the man who says the least to his students? May it mean the virtual scrapping of the lecture system...