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Word: meanly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...economics. The signers were obviously groggy with emotionalism and Mr. Hibben indicates that there is the same fluttering of wings in the Princeton cloister." The professorial urge for debt revision "begins with the idea that the United States was a sluggard in its own War, that it was mean in remaining out of the League of Nations, selfish in kicking itself out of the World Court and can be made respectable only by paying cash for the good opinion of the world, a boss prostitute taking its only chance for redemption. . . . We'd rather Princeton played dirty football under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Debt Revision | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...What does Ish kabibble mean in English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Game No. 1 | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

Time has only added to the glory of the man who was recognized in his time as the greatest of the trinity of tragedians that flourished in Periclean Athens: The work of Sophocles finds the mean between the rather conservative religions views of Aeschylus and the radical thought of Euripides Similarly, the Sophoclean style strikes a compromising note equally removed from the grandiose sublimity of his predecessor and from the freer and more popular handling of the theme in the plays of Euripides. At 12 o'clock today, in Sever 26, Professor Gulick will speak of the tragic poet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 3/18/1927 | See Source »

Tennyson certainly did not mean to exclude even a young Vagabond when he wrote his famous lines reminiscent of a certain curve in the Charles River Parkway, the bright lights of Revere Beach, and soft moons seen from the rumble seats of innumerable roadsters. Having recklessly indulged in his first ice cream cone of the year and permitted himself to be driven around the Wellesley campus the sage frequenter of musty lecture rooms has experienced an emancipation of his "physical amativeness" which will enable him to arise promptly with the twitterings of his alarm clock, breast the tempestuous waves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 3/15/1927 | See Source »

...will spend over 15 minutes on Miller," said U. S. District Attorney Emory R. Buckner to the jury last week as he summed up the conspiracy charges against two members of the Harding Administration. Mr. Buckner, who is going to retire from office in two months, was no mean prophet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: One Blind, One Coated | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

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