Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Progressive points out, an ideal examination system -- which educators have been seeking for many years -- is highly desirable. There is no doubt at all that tests requiring "an application of knowledge to specific problems rather than mere recitation of knowledge" would destroy the illegitimate functions of the tutoring schools. However, since few such exams have been devised, it seems impractical to attack the tutoring system from such an idealistic angle...
Running out on his erstwhile associated and becoming a "guide" instead of a tutor was a pretty cagey move. "Guidance" is perfectly legal. "Guidance," in fact, is a brand new field in these parts, and the mere word commands respect. The University has already taken steps that will eventually lead to adequate "guidance" for all men. Mr. Wolff's misuse of the term should not give rise to the delusion that "guidance" can be carried on commercially in the Square...
Local 381 of the Taxicab Drivers of America struck a week ago last Friday against the Yellow Cab Company in order to get "a family wage of a mere $15 for a 10 hour day." The Union under President Stephen A. Dunlevy charges that President Magann of the taxi company makes enough profit out of the company after paying his 90 drivers $12.60 a week to run a stable of racing horses...
...essential, as shown by the small but consistent number of Law School graduates who spend a year at the Business School before leaving Cambridge. Yale men are not so lucky, for they have no business School. The cooperative plan made Harvard in effect a mere crutch for them. It is no wonder that the scheme was dropped by mutual consent...
Less formidable dramatists than Behrman have had a go at this plot, but much of the time Behrman handles it with adroitness and wit. The trouble is that Behrman, a Frederick Lonsdale who reads The New Republic, too often makes sex a mere come-on for ideas, none of which he accepts. He is a kind of ideological window-shopper; or, like Pooh-Bah, a Leader of the Opposition, he feels he must resist what he approves of as First Lord of the Treasury...