Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outside the Houses will be increased, because the privileges of House membership will be so easily attainable by outsiders; and the sense of unity in the various Houses will be lost. In large measure, the Houses will cease to be social units and desirable dwelling places, and will become mere additions to the scholarly and athletic facilities for the use of the University...
...teacher. If scholarship is too greatly rewarded, teachers grow scarce, and all but the extraordinary student are left in the lurch. An even balance between instructive words and sublime deeds must be kept, if the college is to avoid the fate of some of its follows who have become mere graduate schools...
...future, wrote a letter to Mayor O'Brien. Five of the city's highest fiscal potentates told him plainly: "The problem cannot be permanently solved, and the city restored to the high credit position to which it is fundamentally entitled, without a more comprehensive program than the mere infliction of additional taxes upon an already overtaxed community." They proposed that the bankers, the city and the Governor of New York meet to work out a real solution. Lawyer Untermyer. replying for Mayor O'Brien, accepted the proposal. Meantime the Board of Aldermen rubber-stamped Mr. Untermyer...
...shark-hunters, we view disdainfully the "exciting experience" of Mr. Holzman of Cincinnati, who reports in these columns (TIME, Aug. 21) how he was roused from his absorption in TIME by the whirring sound of an unwinding reel and forgot all else as he "found and finally landed" a mere 3½-lb. bass. I happened to be reading TIME and Mr. Holzman's letter during a shark-hunt off Lewes, Del., when I was roused by a shout from one of our party: "I got one!" He was Herluf Provensen, who was presidential announcer...
...people who objected to the things he printed, Dana retorted: "I have always felt that whatever the divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report."' Passionately fond of a good story, he demanded that his reporters write interestingly. Life to him was no mere procession of elections, legislatures, murders. It was "a new kind of apple, a crying child on the curb, the exact weight of a candidate for President, the latest style in whiskers, the idiosyncrasies of the City Hall clock, a new football coach at Yale, a vendetta in Mulberry Bend...