Word: thoughtlessly
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Critical observers of the American educational scene have written volumes of comment, both harping and constructive. But the nub of their lengthy disquisitions was recently pointed out, all unwittingly, by a prominent education. His proud and thoughtless boast was roughly this, "the undergraduate of today covers the same ground as the Ph.D. of fifty years ago." He might well have added, for clarification, that in this process the undergraduate, like the Ph.D. candidate, is being prepared for worship in the great American Cathedral to Fact...
...years' cruise experience. She vouchsafed us several personal and unusually laudable confidences that have caused us to love, cherish and admire her as we have few, if any, before her. Not only does she neither drink nor smoke, but if given half a chance by a morbidly curious, thoughtless world she could, without half trying, win it completely. An innate sweetness and native charm amply justify the plea of a justly proud father, "Why can't she be loved for herself...
...called Poil de Carotte because he really had red hair. It was simply another indignity slapped on him by his thoughtless family, a preoccupied father and a queer pinched mother who hated him so much that she did not hesitate to tell the servants that he was dirty, sullen and a liar. She terrified Poil de Carotte, who had come to her late in life and unwanted, widening the breach between her and her silent husband. The child was thin, big-eyed, hopelessly sensitive. The ecstasies of childhood, as well as its cruel injustices, its disappointments and aching loneliness, seized...
...quite as much as they could wish. We are too often misunderstood I think, and when ignorance and prejudice occasionally seem to be still harbored by all sections of our country, I feel that it may be worth the effort to try to correct (if possible) some of these thoughtless errors...
...thoughtless Germans, May is still a long way off. But never for one instant has pale Chancellor Heinrich Bruning forgotten that according to Germany's Constitution Old Paul von Hindenburg's term of office is up in May. With another Reparations conference hanging over his head, he stood face to face with the prospect of a new Presidential election and general elections to the Prussian Diet, elections in which his opponents the Hitlerites were almost sure to make enormous gains...