Word: veined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief contention that education ossifies the mind. F. W. Lorenzen '28 intends to enlarge on the evil of specialization which has grown out of the modern educational system. The last speaker for the affirmative, D. W. Chapman '27, will broach the issue in a somewhat more humorous vein. His arguments are based on the assumption that people are becoming too educated to be either comfortable or agreeable. He is also going to decry the decay of modern literature, putting the responsibility for this decline on the development of education...
...easy task in this age and particularly when he has written so many in the same vein. Not even the most vigorous literary adventurer can endure too many adventures. So this last leaves Mr. Farnol rather weak. Yet there are still a great many world-worn moderns, tired equally of Main Street and Mencken, who wish occasionally to roam along paths--and "The High Adventure" leads them thus. So perhaps it is not fair to damn, even with faint praise. "The High Adventure" will beguile many a world-worn modern--and more than beguile many a boy of fourteen...
...Kipling when in an imperialistic vein has often railed against the practice of counting noses to determine principles. So obviously did he favor an aristocratic government that men set his objections aside as prejudiced. But Walter Lippmann's challenge to the right of majorities can not be avoided so lightly. In the current issue of Harper's, he logically asserts that no virtue rests in 51 percent of the nation from the simple fact of their majority. The denial of the fundamental tenet of democracy by Mr. Lippmann, one time editor of the New Republic, and at present in charge...
...they whirled home through the underground, the purchasers of this rare pennyworth perused a little story, in the now familiar vein, which described the adventures of a boy with the kings, queens and knaves of a pack of cards. In the end all the royal cards are burnt, and this denouement seemed commonplace enough to most of the stolid Londoners. Here and there, however, there was one who remembered that...
Reasoning in a similar vein, one Marshall Hadely, a druggist in Middlesex, England, wrote a physician a letter which was read before the local medical committee...