Word: sway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show that the great majority of these latter-day Edenites take their antics in the altogether solemnly, if not sadly. ... All nonnudist reporters on the life at a nudist camp find it insufferably dull. They are diverted by nothing about it so much as the quiet but firm sway of the proprieties over groups that affect to live like nymphs and fauns. The truth of the matter seems to be that the average nudist is a puritan. . . . He notes with triumph that he experiences no wicked reactions to visions that are allegedly wicked. This indulgence may seem thoroughly absurd...
College students of the Freshman and Sophomore years do not, in general, know where their interest lie and if they did, their training has not been sufficient to enable them safely to give full sway to their inclinations. Required courses are justifiable here for two reasons. In the first place they may actually convey sufficient knowledge of a particular field to be of cultural value long after graduation. A Bachelor of Arts degree has long signified in its possessor at least a smattering of supposedly broadening subjects. Regardless of what one may think of this viewpoint, it represents an ideal...
...that later, when they are allied with them they may be able to stiffen the requirements. Such an answer to as important a problem as this is most unsatisfactory. For is it not conceivable that the eventual result may be that the schools will gradually exert more and more sway over the universities until the latter are no longer able to secure the changes for which they had hoped...
...lucky break. Mr. Ruth is not merely touring Japan. With a troupe of American Leaguers led by Connie Mack he is barnstorming the Far East de luxe. Seventeen games will be played in Japan. It would be naive to suppose that Japanese baseball frenzy for baseball's Babe will sway public opinion, but last week it did ease tension. The Ginza broke out in a rash of Stars & Stripes. As they cheered Mr. Ruth and milled around him for autographs, Japanese could less easily believe that President Roosevelt was a Naval Ogre and an Oil Molloch...
...will be back at the Metropolitan?not singing on the stage, but in a grandtier box on Saturday afternoons broadcasting descriptions of the operas which are to be put on the air by Lambert Co. (Listerine). Her comments are bound to be keen and intelligent. She still can sway any kind of audience...