Word: shamming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they were educational for all participants, against the value of which, however, must be balanced the expenditure of several millions of dollars. The navy and army both had a splendid outing, some experience in testing theories, and, despite the feeling aroused by the contest, unanimous pleasure in conducting the sham manoeuvres. The significance of aviation in modern warfare may have been brought out more emphatically than before, but surely this disclosure is searcely so new that it needs a whole fleet to test...
...noisy neighborhood house. Boredom takes the place of quasi enthusiasm and the student struggles painfully and hopelessly for a while, only to let it all drop in the end. He knows then, as others do not know, that the whole shining structure of Social Service is founded on pitiful sham and sheer impracticability. David Worcester...
...proceedings is J. B. Buttrick '28, of Concord. Buttrick is the direct descendant of the Major John Buttrick who led the attack of the minute men across the Concord bridge during the defense of the town by the revolutionary army. Part of the program will be a sham battle in which he will take the part of his famous ancestor and reenact the historic contest...
...Premier Ramsay MacDonald, Sir Alfred Mond and Viscountess Astor followed. The first dwelt on the psychological effects of the Singapore base on the Japanese; the second called the naval estimates a sham; the third thought that the Army and the Navy should be strong enough to secure peace...
...florid face upon the inclining Furtwangler. He had just heard him conduct Strauss's Death and Transfiguration, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, with dignity and power. This Furtwangler well understands Beethoven, presents, in fact, something of an intellectual likeness to him. He has vigor, directness, a scorn of sham that amounts some- times to a scorn of subtlety, and a kind of majesty even-the majesty of the unconcerned. Perhaps that is why the cellists slapped their instruments, Mr. Mackay beamed, the house roared, Furtwängler marched 16 times between the conductor's dais and the wings...