Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...late there have appeared in your paper various communications and unworthy editorial, concerning the summer military camps that were pregnant with the dry rot, which, in the form of self complacency and indifference is secretly consuming the manhood of many dabblers in "idealism...
...assiduous perusal of almost all the publications here, together with their reviews as published in the CRIMSON, that some one ought to caution the undergraduates against the majority of the reviewers. In his honest review of the Advocate, published in the CRIMSON, March 7, Doctor Maynadier has this sentence, pregnant with uncommonly good sense: "Any officer of the College, even 'the young assistant,' must have a point of view so different from that of the undergraduates that to him the most conspicuous trait of undergraduate publications is likely to be youth...
...recent report to the Student Council the Committee on Scholarship and Publications has rendered a very pregnant suggestion for raising the level of scholarship among undergraduates. In brief, the committee's plan is to secure an increased interest in scholarship in the Freshman class, and in that way to elevate progressively the scholarship standards of the upper classes. That the problem lies with the Freshman class is shown by an examination of figures showing the percentages in the various classes of men winning academic distinction. Only ten per cent, of last year's Freshman class won positions in the first...
...reported of Bracton how he said upon one day in summer, employing tempore abstraction is the vulgar tongue: "Vel Giantes vel Athleticos, Play Ball!" whereupon Coke maketh this pregnant note, as he well sayeth; "Mong chapoc este dans li cercle...