Word: sordidly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's fine words of introduction were not bombast--their sincerity is more than proved by what the United States offers. His speech epitomizes what everyone would like to feel about America, but what we have been recently led to doubt. "We harbor no fears; we have no sordid ends to serve; we suspect no enemy; we contemplate or apprehend no conquest. We only wish to do with you that fine, nobler thing which no nation can do alone". The altruism of America is unquestionable...
...called the World. It is rather the ability to understand the world and all a place in it, yet to rise above that place with aspirations for something better than the world already has. It is appreciation of what is fine without letting it be obscured by the sordid. It is not more training, but inspiration. These qualities are the attributes of intellect, and they lead to progress. They are to be attained only by that form of mental activity known as scholarship; and we believe that it is the sort of scholarship for which Harvard trains--a scholarship...
...Therein lies the fallacy of trying to censor the play after it is finished. Particularly objectionable parts are, indeed, removed and the piece rewritten and patched up; but the scissors cannot eliminate that much more subtle and deadly, influence of "atmosphere". Yet unhealthy atmosphere". Yet unhealthy atmosphere, such as sordid or criminal backgrounds, scenes of "night life", etc., is what the new regulation particularly aims at removing...
...Islands, in this later book there is constantly recurring the note of sadness which is felt by all lovers of the Polynesians when they contemplate the sad remnant of that once spleen did race. Whenever a barbaric people have been wiped out by civilization it has made a sorry, sordid tale; the physical beauty and lovable natures of the Tahitians has made the story of their decline particularly tragic...
...prosaic life beyond the pale of campus or club. Is this criticism just? Perhaps the logical reply is that the college in order to serve its proper function must be 'quite detached from the narrowness and pettiness of everyday existence; that it should not wallow in the muck of sordid partyism, but that it should cling to a rational idealism, attempting to apply its formulas worked out in the experiment station to the unscientific and illogical conditions of an unreasoning world outside...