Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been some talk in the press recently with regard to moving Kempton to halfback in order to work Murphy into the backfield; but Jones would scarcely care to put his only two capable quarterbacks in play at the same time, especially since Murphy is rather frail. Moreover "it would mean putting both his drop-kickers in at once, Aldrich being the other reliance in this line. In spite, then, of his excellent exhibition of running, forward passing and drop-kicking in the Carnegie game, Murphy will remain the foremost threat on the Yale sidelines, ready to go into the game...
...literally broke" to which our correspondent refers was based on the fact that Chicago's supply of quick assets and cash is so depleted that; she has resorted to paying municipal employees in scrip. "Per capita debt" seems to mean nothing without taking into account the resources per capita. We do not know who is the authority for Mr. Davis's statement that chicago municipal bonds are selling six points higher than Victory Bonds. The latter closed last week at 96, 06, while inquiry from three of the largest municipal bond houses in Boston shows that four per cent bonds...
...think what would then become of their constitutional liberty to vote according to their personal judgment. And when they have thought the matter over, the probability is that those who are Republicans will decide to remain Republicans and those who are Democrats will decide to remain Democrats. They will mean no disrespect to President Gompers, but they will attend to their own business in their own way. Boston Herald
...instructor offers an interesting subject in a manner so informal, so free from petty demands, that once this reputation is established the course is over whelmed by that class of incomprehensible students who regard a successful life impossible without a college degree but meanwhile struggle to make that degree mean as little as possible...
...essentially good. There are bad men who intend to do wrong. Perhaps there would be little use in preaching to them; and it is probable that the aggregate inability of mankind to reach a higher level is due less to deliberate wrongdoing than to the defects of men who mean on the whole to do right. Jonah did no harm in the parable because God disposed otherwise; he lost sight of his object, not because he could not see it, but because...