Word: timidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concentration in Sociology gives one the opportunity of selecting courses in a broader range of related departments than does concentration in any other field. From the standpoint of the prospective concentrator, especially if he be somewhat timid and doubtful about the finality of his decision, this relative freedom to browse in sundry delectable fields of his own choice is a strong practical advantage. Most of the Older departments, like English, Classics, Mathematics, Music, the Natural Sciences, Fine Arts--are more thoroughly self-contained than the younger Social Sciences. History and, Anthropology, Government and Economics, Psychology and Literature, Philosophy and History...
What a House & Senate majority could or would not do in the way of specific pension reform President Roosevelt was now ready to undertake if given full power. Gladly would he become the "whipping boy" (his word) for the veterans, thus letting timid members of Congress pass the blame to the White House. His proposal amounted to sweeping the whole patchwork pension system aside and starting afresh on a merit basis. Those with real War hurts would be fully cared for-but not malingerers. If a veteran was so permanently and totally disabled in civil life as to become...
...pleasant life, tutors and students alike might preserve a passive attitude without any serious consequences. But the distinction between resident and non-resident tutors was certainly intended to be more real than is implied in a mere use of House accommodations for board and lodging, and an occasional timid glance into the common room. Great care was exercised in selecting a well balanced staff of tutors for each House to provide appropriate cultural leaven. But this can become practical only through the easy association for which the House dining halls give ample opportunity...
...wife (Joan Barry), a fuzzy British tourist with a regurgitative chuckle (Gordon Harker), a U. S. millionaire traveling with his secretary, a chief of police, a nervous spinster. The picture thief's accomplice renews an old romance with the cinemactress while the picture thief is murdering a timid little rascal for stealing a Van Dyck which, through a confusion of briefcases, finds its way into the compartment of the U. S. millionaire. The businessman is suspected of the murder, cleared about the time the train reaches Rome...
...alien corn. It was inherited by Harry Conway (James Rennie), and he and his wife (Lily Cahill) are rich and tolerant enough to let it flourish-within certain limits. Its faculty is a representative cross-cut of indigenous academic life. There are a prig and a politician. Small, timid Professor Stockton (E. J. Ballantine) has found that pistol practice and an occasional mild laxative keep his nerve up. Another professor, blessedly resigned, loves to teach, ''even if they don't learn a damned thing." Still another, Elsa Brandt (Katharine Cornell), spiritually writhes in agony in the bondage...