Word: uncouthness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ning Po Junk expedition. It was a bitter blow to the proud 18th Century shipbuilders of Britain and the U. S. to discover that the cliff-sided, lattice-sailed junks of China could outride a typhoon that would dismast a frigate. A Chinese junk, for all its uncouth lines, is one of the most seaworthy ships ever built. Most of them are also among the dirtiest ships ever sailed. That fact, however, need not worry Subscribing Shipmates. The plans that reached Shanghai last week were for a junk outwardly orthodox in every detail from the staring eyes on its squat...
...secondary education: "The use of correct, trenchant and beautiful English among the graduates of our secondary schools is so rare as to attract surprised attention. Manners are poor, the courtesies of an early day are classified as Victorian and are therefore discarded. It is considered smart to appear uncouth. Lawlessness is on the increase. Political indifference has increased. Spiritual ideals have become less evident...
Thus by indirection Dr. Lewis told off some notable Groton virtues. Groton boys use good English, so good that six have received 100% on the College Board Examination. Their manners are flawless. They are never uncouth. They obey all the major laws. Their record as public servants is unique among swank schools. And if spiritual ideals are less evident, that is no fault of Endicott Peabody...
...Rejected (279-to-68) a Labor motion to outlaw private arms manufacture in Great Britain. Cool, sarcastic Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon headed off demands for an armaments inquisition by making the one held by the U. S. Senate appear uncouth. In eight hours of hot debate the munitions business received the most notable airing it has ever had in the House of Commons...
...poet but a lady poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay writes not only valentines but epitaphs in lines less mighty than aristocratic. Even when she compares a woman's breasts to wild carrot and onion blossoms or describes the mating of dinosaurs, she contrives to make neither an uncouth nor an arresting gesture. At the sight of a new sonnet sequence critics may hitch up to their typewriters and look for unstruck keys, but ordinary readers will prefer Poet Millay's less pretentious quatrains...