Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first criticism is, for the most part, just, and was an unfortunate oversight. However, so little interest is taken in elections in general at Harvard that I believe that very few would even try to "stuff the ballot boxes", and a good many signed their ballots regardless...
...prices which people have been forced to pay for popular literature has had anything but a beneficial effect on the reading public. It has driven a great many into the class of magazine readers; it has lead to a false sense of value with regard to a lot of stuff which sells for over $2.00 and is actually worth practically nothing. And finally it has kept books from a great many people who would be ready buyers at lower prices...
Long after the campaign Bishop Cannon complained to Mr. Jameson that he was still in debt for "stationery and stuff." Mr. Jameson gave him another $7,300. Mr. Jameson's explanation: "The Bishop seemed to have worked so hard in the campaign, I helped him out. I made him that contribution ? no, not contribution ? er ? just made him that gift...
...other times, Author Hazard indulges in metaphor. "I have been, reading this stuff by Ben Lindsay about sex. I really can't see anything more complicated about the sex business than about the business of buying an automobile...
...place to begin the study of a living tongue, Large classes, poor teachers, and the fact that requirements of and sort are distastefully out of step with Harvard's educational idea make the situation here peculiarly bad. If all education is self-education, how can it be possible to stuff a reading knowledge down unwilling throats, with translations available and cheap and the Widow available but expensive...