Word: trenchant
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...election year one must discount the omniverous shadow of the ballot box; and in a depression year, one must discount the tragic little concluding sermon on materialism. To the man who was too busy or too lazy to follow the newspapers in 1932, "The American Scene" will appear trenchant and indispensable. The well informed man will find in it perhaps three hours of pleasant reminiscence and then recommend it for the attention of the neighborhood high school teacher of current events...
Leverett House, secure in its wisdom, has no pretensions. The trenchant phrase "Leavitt and Peirce" has more of a dormitory ring than "Mather and McKinlock." In the effort to conceal its identity the House even renounced such an abortive distinction as the Kirkland tower. Definite, but not startling, is its situation on both sides of Mill Street, between Plympton and Bow, conveniently near to the Weeks foot bridge, and to the delights of the Business School Cafeteria. Perhaps the only truly unusual thing about the House is its much discussed, trapezoidally shaped, and subtly concealed dining hall, graced at House...
...through investigation of the whole case and after numerous stimulating dives into communications similar to that reprinted above, the CRIMSON finds no reason to retract any statement in its editorial "On the Tribune" which appeared on February 6. Characteristic of the complaints has been the childish tendency to segregate trenchant words and phrases from their context, to ignore all qualifications whatsoever. A careful reconsideration of the editorial should serve as a calming influence. As a denouncement let it be known that the writer of the editorial is a midwesterner...
...character is in strange contrast to the feverish managerial gibberings which have attended his death. The field is wide open for trenchant innuendo. His handlers had little to win, much to lose by a victory over Carnera. He was allowed to enter the ring after a brief training period of ten days which followed all attack of influenza. The association of these two facts admittedly proves nothing; according to medical advices it had nothing to do with the boxer's death. But it focuses an ugly light on the managerial claim, that "He had to die to prove he wasn...
...letter reprinted immediately below constitutes, in its main thesis, a peculiarly trenchant substantiation of the arguments of those who would abolish all save Senior Class officers. The conditions described by the writer are scarcely confined to the Freshman Class. They are characteristic of Sophomore and Junior elections as well; and for a complete demonstration one need only add figures to prove that it is a rare balloting which draws votes from more than half the electorate...