Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weak that his legs trembled when he stood, and he was unable to retain his urine. I grafted upon his glands those of a buck six months of age. In about two months there came a change in his attitude. His apathy, his air of defeat, his sad expression gave way to a vivacity of movement and a belligerent and combative spirit. . . . Instead of the indifference he had previously shown in the presence of the sheep he exhibited impetuosity and juvenile ardor. Isolated in a stable with a ewe he became the father of a lamb. Four years after...
...comparatively, the university is a free agent. It sets the standards and consequently bears the responsibility of keeping the standard as high as average human intelligence permits,--or perhaps even a little higher. Future generations may bemoan their sad plight of being born into a world a whole C ahead of their ancestors' but the natural result of the raising of university requirements will inevitably be the tightening up of secondary school requirements and a boosting all along the line of a sagging elementary school system With this done, college work in spite of increased vigor will probably be less...
...Charles G. Abbot, of the Smithsonian Institution (TIME, May 5) made a solar cooker at Mt. Vernon, Calif., which so concentrated the rays of the sun that the temperature of the oven was 175° Centigrade. Sad to say, the oil circulating system sprang a leak, soaked the insulation with oil, and the heat set fire to and destroyed the machine...
...plaster gives that building a prominence which it has not enjoyed for seveveral generations. Massachusetts Hall has become a harmonious part of the landscape of the Yard. Like the elms, and the columms on University Hall it looks very nice in etchings; but its practical value has undergone a sad decline...
...sad drop from the drama of these argumentative struggles between conflicting ideals to the trained enthusiasm and unstimulating presentation of the usual intercollegiate debate. If attendance statistics prove, as they do, that interest has waned in such discussions the blame must be attributed to the adoption of the formalism of the law court. Efforts to break from this usage they usually consisted of a copying of the "Oxford Union" type of discussion; and the success with which this English institution has become acclimated at Harvard is illustrated by the interest which the Debating Union meetings have aroused. But except...