Word: noxiously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Freshman classes, the setting was complete but for one item, the Senior class. For only a scant two score of Seniors came bashfully through the Yard, in newly donned caps and gowns to observe the time-honored custom of the picture. The others were deterred from attending by the noxious mists and the threatened rain...
...World goes on to criticize the present involved and inefficient method of legal censorship. Its criticism of the old method is very well founded; but the improvements it suggests are just as noxious as the old evils. Twelve "good men and true" are to be the arbiters of New York's theatrical morals. What their special qualifications will be is left unsaid. They are probably the same as those which so eminently fit the average New York court jury for its legal task...
...incurables will always remain: but they must take a low place in the general esteem. A tradition of competitive scholarship can be built up but the first task of the authorities is to convince the college man that such competition is worth-while. To rely on publicity is perhaps noxious, but in this case as in a thousand others, the end will justify the means. Youth will always seek fame, even if it is a will-o-the-wisp; and to use youth's fantasy for its own improvement is the height of teaching genius...
...noxious petition accused the University of truckling to business interests to the detriment of its educational standards. The stigma of this accusation lingers. It is either true or untrue. That the legislature has not thought fit to interfere neither proves nor disproves the charges. But Harvard men--both graduates and undergraduates--can not rest upon this noncommittal result. The interests of the University demand that the Alumni assume responsibility for a thorough investigation by the proper authorities to establish the facts...
...Fever, sweating, temper, sensitiveness? that is rickets. In former days, a famed antidote, a preventative, was known. That stood and stands still on many a pantry shelf, is administered in a great spoon after every meal, a green-glooming fluid in a sticky bottle?Cod-liver Oil. This ob- noxious tonic possesses many of the vitamins necessary to discourage rickets, gives strength to rickety children...