Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poetry the Advocate is more ragged and uncertain. Richard Linn Edsall's "Ad Beatam Mariam Virgonem", adding nothing to mediaeval hymns in sentiment or diction, is noticeable for its subject matter among the vapidities of current taste, which undergraduates are fairly quick to imitate. Byron Cutcheon's "Requiem for the Poet" contains three good lines among a number of bad ones. "April Fool!" by Stuart Ayers is the best contribution in verse, disposing the manners of the day in four effective quatrains printed zigzag down the page. "My Pleasant Celia" is agreeable and neatly versified...
...spite of these lapses from the narrow path of duty, the morale of the service is high, and all indications point to quick results. Any day may bring the news from Captain Jacobs that until sources and supplies of liquor have been entirely bottled...
John Spencer grew to years of discretion and mechanical knowledge. Re- cently, the U. S. Patent Office issued to him a basic patent for a new type of quick-acting thermostatic bimetal device.* Last week, the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. obligated itself to him (according to report) to the extent of a million dollars for this patent. The Spencer Thermostat will now appear on a variety of electrical apparatus, chiefly irons, coffee-percolators, water-heaters...
...legitimate help to the student in his effort to master the difficulties. The use of translations is recommended by numerous educators. They deplore that a student's time should be wasted in eternal thumbing of vocabulary and grammer. The use of correct translations guarantees correct solution of idioms and quick insight into the sense...
...Twain was kindly disposed toward bad little boys; he made good reading of them. Nevertheless, many urchins since have unwittingly assumed the habits of his tatterdemalions without their redeeming graces; the U. S. is full of juveniles?some of native, some of alien, some of unknown parentage?who are quick to become dicers, toss-pots and wastrels if steps are not taken to make them demean themselves with proper decorum. Last week, two movements were set afoot which will doubtless greatly further the moral education of these Huckleberry Finns? Polish, Jewish, Italian, Irish and American...