Word: vaguest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conditions revealed by the report, they are very much what might have been expected. Except for men planning to take graduate work and who are definitely settled upon some science or profession, only the vaguest sort of intentions are revealed. It is on this ground that the report urges the creation of the new office of Vocational Guidance to be distinct from both the Student Employment Bureau and the Alumni Appointments Office. But there is another possible interpretation of the vagueness shown by the Seniors in their replies. Rather than a need for advice, the figures more probably indicate that...
...have something to promote and unless Promoter-Pugilist Dempsey should arrange a match between himself and the winner of the Sharkey-Stribling bout, there seemed to be no further work for Rickard's successor to do until a prospective heavyweight champion appeared. Of these, only one had shown the vaguest possibility of becoming satisfactory. This was Maximilian Siegfried Victor ("Mocks") Schmeling who was once the champion of Germany, who has fought twice in the U. S., who is 23 years old, who looks like Jack Dempsey and is being taught to fight like...
...richest the Roman Catholic Church of Mexico never collected "a donation of even as much as one peso from each member of the flock per year." A Mexican would point out that "the flock" includes in Roman Catholic computation hundreds of thousands of peasants who have only the vaguest religious concepts, and habitually confuse the Trinity with the native gods of old Mexico. Should "the flock" be pruned of all these semi-pagans the contribution per "orthodox" Roman Catholic would be found to have doubled many times. To Roman Catholics "The flock's the flock, and there...
...lace. They constitute, however, only 15% of the U. S. corset buyers, the Bureau of the Census made clear last week, reporting a banner year (1925) for the corset and brassiere trade. The daughters of the lacing women have trifled with their mothers' advice; they purchase only the vaguest and least expensive corsets, girdles, slip-ons. There are 166 corset and brassiere manufacturers in the U. S.-one less than...
...present editorial board of the CRIMSON may be so unanimous in its approval of the proposed division into colleges that it is unwilling to admit to its news and editorial columns even the mildest criticism of that phase of the Student Report, even the vaguest suggestion that the whole of our student body and the whole of intelligent out side opinion does not partake equally of the CRIMSON's enthusiasm for this new proposal. But at least the "Communications" column should be open to expressions of the opposite point of view...