Word: timidating
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...will be one of unusual interest. The plan of devoting services during the opening days of the mid-year term to talks by members of the Faculty was inaugurated last year, and met with so much success that it bids fair to become an annual custom. Those who are timid of "regular" ministers will perhaps lose some of their shyness before secular professors, deans, and doctors. The others will be much interested to learn the views of Dean Gay and those who follow him. For six days, religion will cast off the cloth and wear, so to speak, the common...
Debussy's battle has been fought and won to all intents and purposes. The little band of Pelleastres that gathered more than a decade ago in the Opera Comique would find now only a timid enemy. J. D. Austin's "Debussy and his Critics," therefore, is pertinent rather, as an eloquent plea for fair-mindedness in criticism than as an apologia for the piquant and genial author...
...Park denied that this latter objection to the cause was a real one, but classified it as the fear of the conservative and timid that any change, social, legal, or industrial, in the status of woman would do a great harm to women and thence to the family. She closed with the plea that the whole woman suffrage question depends on people thinking in the light of reason and justice, instead of seeing the cause through the mist of their own prejudices or the conservatism which is bred of custom; in short, that people should consider the question...
...maligned Hemenway Gymnasium is a bowling alley, where he will find both physical exertion and the most delightfully fickle uncertainty. The alley resembles a relief map of the state of Nevada. The balls have little devils in them, and they skip and prance from upland to meadow, while the timid pins, across the divide, stand firm as a Central American army. At the noisy bouncing approach of the enemy, the timid pins, like a Central American army, shiver and fall. One can make a tolerable score without hitting a pin. Chance is everywhere: in the lop-sided balls...
...other. To delay the formation of such a body by "nominations by petition" or futile discussions of the minutiae of ratification by everyone who is to be affected by the "direct jurisdiction over individual students" is, to say the least, shortsighted. Such a policy is part of the timid conservatism which killed the old Student Council. EDWARD EIRE HUNT...