Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sure that all of us who bear about with us the secret shame of a magna or a summa are filled with sorrow that we should give offense. The anonymous gentleman refers to the weakness of our society. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. Perhaps the gentleman would strengthen the society and save his evident shame by removing that weakest link. Such a step would be conclusive to his content as well as to ours that I respectfully offer the suggestion of his mature and secret consideration. Alston H. Chase '27 Instructor and Tutor in Greek...
...helped to "cooperate" (Hoover's favorite word). Also, patience and discretion will be required in large quantities to discriminate between public works needed now, public works needed tomorrow, and public works which will never be needed at all. The last category -joy of the pork barrel experts, sorrow of the tax-payer-is what will be watched out against by hard-headed businessmen who may suspect the job reserve idea of being "utopian...
Buddha tossed aside wealth and temporal power that he might attain victory over old age, death, disease, sorrow. His inheritance was the ancient Vedantic philosophy (man is soul, and has a body that must be subjugated); his contribution was the forging of the middle way between pleasure and self-mortification by which man ascends the Mount of Vision. Confucius, Ancient Teacher, Perfect Sage, "has river eyes and a dragon fore head ... his arms are long, his back is like a tortoise . . . when he speaks he praises the ancient kings. He moves along the path of humility and courtesy...
...malice the prophecy is certainly justified by so cloying a title as Trivial Breath, and further substantiated by much that follows the title. Mistress of euphuistic words, she is carried away by their glamor, too easily seduced from reason. An occasional poem "makes sense," but the sense sounds affected. Sorrow is, for instance, one of the emotions the poet rather fancies, and so she mentions it prettily, knowingly...
...This sorrow, which seemed heavier than a shovelful of loam...