Word: worst
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Secret diplomacy in its worst form, coupled with the inflated preparedness of the type called "adequate" brought on this war in Europe. If the people of this nation knew the forces behind this wild call for "adequate" preparation, this false "insurance" of peace, if our young men understood the financial and commercial pressure back of this agitation, they would treat with the indignation it deserves this wholesale betrayal of the spiritual ideals and forces of America. Force, the "Big Stick," the mailed fist, the iron hand behind the Law and such cant phraseology of the half-baked thinker are running...
Rowing at Columbia has reached the worst crisis in a number of years. Four oarsmen in the first boat have been obliged to give up crew work within the past week. For several days not enough men have reported to man a second eight, and Wednesday's practice had to be called off for the first crew...
...last the Charles was spanned by a suitable structure. He returns to find it giving the appearance of a martial host about to sweep down up on Cambridge. Our lighter contemporary has already suggested that the lamps were anything but neutral, but with their present aureate decorations the worst foars of a Teutonic invasion seem realized. Would it savor too much of a carping spirit to suggest that the present color scheme might be toned down with great advantage...
This would be distressing indeed, for both the Senator and the University from which he was graduated were it not for the fact that Harvard has always been its worst (or best) critic, and has always esteemed its self-criticism a virtue. Such being the case, the gentleman from New Hampshire has been virtuous to the point of sanctimoniousness, for this is not the first time Harvard has felt his barbed shafts...
...improvement. Every undergraduate is well acquainted with the existence of a large number of "snaps"; he is subject to the constant temptation to elect them in spite of the knowledge that to him they will be of little value. Certain whole departments--notably that of Philosophy--are the worst offenders. If the principles of scientific management and standardization are to be introduced at all, they should be adopted consistently...