Word: tamed
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...another smaller portion, and a base desire to avoid the slightest financial loss even at the cost of the loss of national honor by yet another portion, we may be led into a course of action which will for the moment avoid trouble by the simple process of tame submission to wrong. If this is done it will surely invite a repetition of the wrong; and in the end the American people are certain to rent this. Make no mistake. When our people as a whole finally understand the question they will insist on a course of conduct which will...
...mucker," such unbird like fearlessness had never before been seen. They sat on the snow under the trees just back of University Hall, eating the seeds that had fallen, permitted the curiours to approach within a yard or two without manifesting the slig test timidity. "What makes them so tame?" everyone asked...
...comes to the last paragraph. Up to this point there is a change of its being good but the effect is entirely thrown away out of the hasty and unartistic ending. The same fault is to be found with, 'A Disgrace to His Profession'; the last sentence is too tame but the rest of the story is good. The mucker-talk is well handled and there are several felicitous combinations such as the 'hallelujah sisters...
...poses as another Beau Brummel and talks of shopkeepers 'who ought to feel proud of his patronage. The good valet who pays his master's debts out of his savings, and the goodness of his heart, him we have met before. And the sketch is not improved by its tame tragic ending...
...only man left between the runner and the goal. He missed and Bliss made the touch down after a run of 65 yards. This rush was entirely unlooked for, as, with the exception of McClang's 20-yard gain immediately preceding it, the previous play had been tame. The goal kicked was the first in the game from a touch down. This left the score 19-0 in Yale's favor and no more points were made by either side. Princeton, however, had gone bravely to work again, and had made 6 yards...