Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wynn in the background, and the peculiar funniness which he can impart to misfit clothing. Inspired by the success of "Of These I Sing," with satire on contemporary politics, "The Laugh Parade" directs most of its gags in the same direction, but with a success which raises it above mere imitation...
...used for these courses. Even the basements of Memorial Hall might be used to take care of the overflow temporally and until suitable quarters can be found; running water is already available there and more electric lights might be installed. Any of these solutions would, of course, be mere makeshifts to take care of the immediate necessity. When the University is out of its present financial difficulty, a separate building of biological laboratories should be provided for elementary courses...
...Great Dome" is no modernist. Last week reporters learned that while he plans no change in the ideals of the Academy, he is sensitive to the taunts of young art students that American Academicians are mere copyists of classical models...
Russia may be facing her worst food shortage since 1921 (TIME, Sept. 12).* She may be turning the lives of millions of comrades topsy turvy (see above). But Russia remained last week the land of outrageous contrasts, the One Sixth of the World which dwarfs mere generalities. Russia was making one architect so wealthy and so happy last week that his good luck gave him the jitters...
...revolt," determined to take the world into their own hands. The commonplace has become tyrannical. In former times "the masses asserted no right to intervene in [government] ; they realized that if they wished to intervene they would necessarily have to acquire those special qualities and cease being mere mass." A fierce believer in aristocracy of intellect and character, not of heredity, Ortega, y Gasset calls such organized mass-government as Fascism and Bolshevism "two false dawns . . . mere primitivism." Europe's answer, he thinks, is to build itself into one great state in which, he implies, the massman will...