Word: regretable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coming as it will at the close of thirty-three years of service to the health of Harvard University, the resignation of Marshall Henry Bailey is a source of regret. The work of few men ends with their own active participation in it; particularly true is this in the case of Doctor Bailey. In his position of Medical Adviser he has been one of the master artisans in a new University attitude toward physical well-being...
...Houston will never regret it. Come what may, the convention will be something for Houstonians to flaunt in their three-cornered rivalry with other Texas metropolitans?the bustling oil-&-cotton men of upland Dallas and the drawling men of San Antonio...
...will those Democrats regret it who can manage to get out of their own sections and see "what-all" there is in the biggest State of the Union. In Houston, named for General Sam Houston,* who amounts to a second George Washington for Texans, they will find a city almost as big as Denver or Louisville, bigger than Omaha or Atlanta, twice the size of Albany, four times the size of Mobile, with ocean steamers coming right up to it from Galveston Bay, 50 miles away, and 17 railroads heading in from all directions. Jesse Holman Jones's hotel...
After her marriage, Sheilah sinks into veritable oblivion, and because her husband is so lacking in the attributes of a gentleman, welcomes it. Her days of work and regret are somewhat mitigated later by the entrance into her life of Roger Dallinger, a gentleman of instinctively fine qualities to whom in their clandestine relationship she gives the spiritual love her husband never inspired...
...general. And when, in the face of this fact, the impossibility of attaining an intrinsically sound basis outside of the circle of higher education in considered, the outlook is sinister. Standards conducive to stabilization are all too few, and the average student in most cases has enough intelligence to regret the time, energy, and aspiration he loses in pursuing chimeras ineffectively and in obtaining indefinite results, Perhaps Professor Babbitt, in placing most of the blame upon the professor, is too lenient toward the student. For it is only by mutual cooperation that any definite goal can possibly be attained...