Word: worded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...February issue of the "Bookman" is published an article entitled "Detestable Words." This gives a few examples of words which the editor despises. According to the "Bookman," "sense" appears as a verb in every form from the "father sensed his son's abstraction" to the "peeling infant sensed the coming of the succulent milk-bottle." "Poignant" is on the blacklist because of its downright stupidity, "stipend" because of its oily politician sound. "Remuneration" is a foolishly long latinized word, and "dainty" and "refined" are classed as belonging to the "chewing gum" variety...
Princeton will announce and Harvard will word the subject of the debate...
Strategical knowledge gained from experience in years past will ensure the presence of the upperclassmen long before the door closes at five minutes after eight. So we want to whisper a word of friendly advice to the uninitiated. Seats and standing room are not only going to be at a premium, but they are going to be unobtainable for even moderately late arrivals...
There is a phrase which is subtly returning to a too frequent use among students in the University, it is the two-word phrase "getting by". The current vocabulary lost this unfortunate expression during the win-the-war days. Then, anyone who employed it would have been looked upon with well-founded suspicion that he was shirking his duty. The best only was expected, and the best was given unhesitatingly by all. But as President Lowell warned the Freshmen earlier in the year, "the great moral effort which this war has required will surely be followed by a period...
...Getting by" is the advance poster of this lassitude. The expression "contains as much moral poison as a two-word phrase can hold", and it aims to dull the conscience into accepting the kind of listless existence it signifies. The man who says he is "getting by" is merely drifting with the current into the sea of oblivion. When the fighting spirit of races as well as of individuals runs low rapid degeneration inevitably follows. And when high resolve and constant initiative relax their powers, then the loser is morally poor indeed; for he has dropped out of the race...