Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enjoy the play version of "Pride and Prejudice" fully we advise that after you have completely relaxed in your leather-backed chair at the Colonial, forget all the progress of the last two centuries in the mating arts, and reduce your idea of the animal, woman to a mere bundle of hovering, pent-up passion, afraid to let herself loose...
...rewards go to the innovators for their vision and originality. There is little but the ego of man which is increased by knowledge "of wide surface and small depth", or as President Conant expressed it, "Few of the values which feed the human soul can be found by studying mere information...
...explained that it was not at all due to any dissatisfaction with the present disposition of posts, but a mere matter of policy designed to insure the University against the emergency of a shortage of janitors well sequainted with each House...
...abysmal failure of seven Ivy college representatives to make any move to ward off the tidal wave of professionalism should prove that professionalism, like war, is not to be eradicated with mere diplomatic palaver by men whose hands are tied. University presidents must give up hiding their heads in the sand and assume the responsibility which they have unfairly foisted upon athletic directors and coaches--unless, of course, they are willing to admit that football can not be amateur henceforth. If athletics are part of college life, and if gate receipts make up an important share of the university...
...hrer had sent General Wilhelm Faupel, the "German envoy to the Spanish Government of President Franco" hurrying back to Spain with official assurances of further German support for the Whites. Simultaneously about 10,000 additional Italians landed in Spain to join up with Generalissimo Franco- this mere 10,000 being what II Duce last week meant by "going easy" (see p. 20). In London the anti-Fascist and pro-Socialist Daily Herald raged: "There is a Levantine streak in the man [Mussolini] which delights in such sharp practices...