Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continuance of a practice but recently installed, contemplates for another year at least of gently but firmly rejecting, not to say ejecting, all ladies, who may seek admittance to the Union's interesting series of lectures by notable figures of a busy world. Frankly, is that not shaking a mean fist instead of a hospitably extended hand at certain members of the Education School and Sister Radcliffe, not to speak of a few hundred professors' wives, who might possibly be interested in Current Events...
...these figures may mean much or little, according to the point of view. At all events, the Harvard station at Arequipa has mapped out a broad field fur future exploration. The question whether the house of our next door neighbor, Mars, only a fraction of a light year away, is tenanted, is still unsettled; and now we are given a whole new system to play with, a system 15,000 light years in diameter, with hundreds of suns ten thousand times as bright as ours, and a free-for-all guessing contest as to the number of planets, invisible...
...event uncollectible and so should be written off, in order to quit fooling ourselves. Let us decide what others of these debtors are good in part, but must be given ample time to pay; emphatically, let us figure whether the payment of these debts--which inevitably must mean a great increase in our import and a heavy decrease in our export trade--is going to prove an asset or a liability for American business...
...must consider not only what of these debts are good in "cash or kind" but also what are good for America if collected. A complete payment in the one way possible, by imports, would of necessity mean a great decrease in the industries of this country. Can we afford to let them pay the bill...
...there are college students who go to the picture theatres "night after night, week after week, throughout the year"! Did President Hibben mean that the same students are subjected continuously to what he charitably applied no harsher term than anesthesia, or is his charge only that some students are present at every one of these shows? If only the second meaning was his, the situation is not so bad--not bad at all, perhaps. The other, if true, is nothing less than appalling. --The New York Times...