Word: off-handedly
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...observe while in the universities, will later turn out to be the thinking voters of the country. Habits of reason and logic formed in college are not lost in later life, but rather tend to influence the owner to careful and restrained opinion in place of blind and spiteful off-hand judgment...
...sporting club at Monte Carlo is reserved for M. Gallard of Paris who, arriving late, proceeds to break the bank, taking home his winnings in a suitcase which he has brought for the purpose. What follows is an adventure story designed to fit Ronald Colman's elegant, off-hand romanticism. Will he go back to the tables? Hunchbacks, horseshoes and other lucky symbols strewn in his path by the backers of the sporting club fail to lure him. On the Blue Express back to Paris he meets Joan Bennett, falls in love with her, does not know that...
...goodly amount of the world's knowledge into one fat volume of 5,000,000 words. To save space he had done away with pictures and paragraphing, abbreviated mountain to mt., county to co. Staff-written, the encyclopedia had required the efforts of some 200 writers. In an off-hand moment Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler, finding the volume good, named it the Columbia Encyclopedia. The Columbia Press priced it at $17.50, promised delivery some time in October...
...reached late last night, he had previously stated, "I shall look into the matter of placing a night lunch in Adams House." When questioned on the possibility of an Adams night grill, Roy L. Westcott, manager of the University Dining Halls, said "It is very difficult to say off-hand whether or not the proposed cafeteria would be a financial success, . . . (but) the night lunch now operating in Eliot House carries itself...
...aware that the time when his $100,000 a year salary was voted that the Chase bank and its securities affiliate had had hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. A. "I know that the losses have been very large . . . but I cannot give the figure off-hand...