Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...that party and that candidate. One of the hardest things the college man has to meet is the routine work in politics, which sometimes seems to him like drudgery; but if he resolves to freely and earnestly give and take criticism, to keep his word through thick and thin, and to maintain an even and open attitude toward his constituents, marked success cannot but come...
...divided into four layers. Contrary to this doctrine, the present school system has been organized on the idea that every boy may be President of the United States. This idea no longer accords with existing circumstances, since it ignores these four indispensable layers of democratic society; first, a thin, upper layer, consisting of a managing, leading, organizing class; second, a layer comprised of handworkers, who make their living by manual labor of the artistic sort, into which the nervous system enters; third, a commercial layer composed of men employed in buying and distributing; and last, a class in agricultural...
...hockey game scheduled for Saturday afternoon with the Brae Burn Country Club was cancelled because of the poor condition of the ice. Practice was held instead at the Brookline Country Club on ice that was thin and broken in places...
...second practice for the University hockey squad was held yesterday afternoon in the handball courts behind the Gymnasium. Nothing but preliminary work will be attempted until the squad gets on the ice. The ice on the ponds is still very thin, and there will probably be no practice on skates for several days at least...
...great majority of undergraduates and graduates? We conceal our disappointment under praises of the "splendid showing," and as a result each year is a repetition of the last and we have the not altogether enviable reputation of being "gentlemanly losers." Is it not time to throw aside the thin veil of easy-going optimism and to make it clearly known that nothing short of oft-repeated victories will give us cause for satisfaction...