Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roving good-will ambassador, received a kick in its white flannel pants. Drawing up manifestoes for the coming season, the Italian Tennis Federation announced that: 1) Italian tennis players henceforth will be required to play international matches in uniform; 2) handshaking between opponents will be forbidden "to avoid the weed of intimacy which for too long has infested lawn tennis courts...
...School of Education, announced a compromise between these extremes. Next fall Cornell will start a five-year training course for high-school teachers. It will stress cultural education, but students will also spend one-fifth of their time learning to understand teaching and children. Most radical advance: tests to weed out unfit teachers at intervals, before they graduate. Students will be required not only to pass their courses but also to give evidence of mental fitness, emotional stability, poise, ability to use the English language properly...
...barrier, they might have been little animals-silver mosquitoes on a screen, countless miniature human beings, struggling to keep from falling and at the same moment stare at a great wonder, clutching at the bare face of a cliff to find support where there was not a root or weed to grasp. There was the momentary retention of position in the sphere of the light, then the same abrupt relaxation of their unaccountable grip and the rapid descent as in the lives of men he had read about, like Shelley, perhaps, or Chatterton...
...universities have to weed out students who regard college as a very fine club, those who mistakenly believe that they are fitted for executive or other intellectual work, and who are actually excellent manual or physical workers (and we by no means underrate or disparage such ability, but such instruction is not the function of a university...
Smoking in dying out at Yale. Only fourteen per cent of the freshmen use the weed. - Columbia Spectator...