Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of intercollegiate meets in the spring. After a few dual meets to be arranged soon, they will participate in early May in the New England Intercollegiate Meet at Northampton with eight or ten colleges competing, among them Smith. With several followers of Amelia Earhart, Smith is no mean antagonist...
...honors graduates and failures. Nothing could be more significant than the progress since 1923 from 17.3% graduating with honors in a special field to last year's 31.9% and from 8.5% failures in 1924 to 5.8% last year. This criterion of progress is simple and accurate. The figures mean simply that, owing to changes in the methods of education, more students have been stimulated to do good work, and fewer students have become so maladjusted, uninterested, or lazy that they have not even lived up to the minimum requirements...
...Yale has a pretty lousy crew right now" he began. "Eight of their best men either have graduated or are laid up. But that doesn't mean that they won't have a good one by the time we meet them on June...
...appeal of oil or gas, since the coal was conveyed from bin to furnace without the intervention of a shovel. Aside from convenience, the strongest selling point for mechanical stokers is economy. More heat is obtained from less coal. Stokers have offered hope to the coal industry, since they mean real competition for the oil burner...
...Santayana's long fable as there are readers of it. Although most of these readers may interpret Oliver's unwillingness to accept the world and its pleasures as evidence of some lack of physical passion, the author makes it clear that for Oliver puritanism did not mean chastity or priggishness. "It is a popular error," says he, ''to suppose that puritanism has anything to do with purity." Nor was it ''mere timidity or fanaticism or calculated hardness: it was a deep and speculative thing: hatred of all shams, scorn of all mummeries, a bitter...