Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...provision effecting revocation until further order of the licenses of certain newspapers must not be interpreted as a breach of the principle of liberty of the press or of criticism. It is well that everyone knows Fascism does not fear either verbal or actual antagonists. What Fascism refuses to permit is liberty of libel, which is also severely banned by American legislation. That is to say, we insist upon tranquillity arid security for the Italian people, whose productive rhythm must proceed without being disturbed. Do you believe we can stop our march at every step to bend to pick...
...been said and written in the last few days about the Princeton-Harvard game, namely, that immediate action be taken to return that game to its place as an athletic contest between friendly and ancient rivals, two venerable and dignified American universities. It is too easy to make verbal gestures, either of derision or understanding and sympathetic cooperation toward a common end; it is often too difficult to let such gestures give way before adequate and conclusive action...
...with its directorate, its Teutonic philology, its attempt to grasp the fundamentals of the inductive system. Where one had been able to deliver ancient and musty truths which followed easily and logically from general premises, he was now confronted with the necessity of building from so many roots, verbal and cerebral, his particular system. No could he continue long in a world of scientific research to be complacently content with his system. It must change with the advent of more knowledge...
...derived from an accurate appreciation of Gray's use of he comma. The third class embraces such men as Bliss Perry, formerly editor of the "Atlantic", who in his fear of being less the scholar for being more the teacher does a forensic tightrope act between vitality and the verbal norm. None of these three classes apparently dares give to the undergraduate food for thought, for all appear in constant trepidation lest undergraduates enjoy their lectures. Nor is this word "enjoy" used in any vulgar sense. No one wants Will Durant's "Outline of Philosophy" for his text book...
...double-derringers dictated the editorial policies of the better southern and western papers, editors have denounced everything that smacked of the foppish, the exquisite, and, above all, the epicene. Last week, to one of the editorial writers of the Chicago Tribune, came an unequalled opportunity to demonstrate his verbal virility...