Word: careless
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Stadium sufficiently well, to avoid such inconsistencies. We realize that it is a big task, perhaps too big, to handle the tickets for three important games by the application method, but the fact that the method involves extra labor can hardly be accepted as excuse for the careless blunders that have been committed...
...team, coupled with some very listless and stupid playing by the University team, permitted the visitors not only to score but to hold Harvard to an 8 to 6 victory. In the first half Williams started off with a rush and caught the University players off their guard. Two careless fumbles in the Harvard backfield, hard tackling by the Williams ends, who followed the ball exceedingly well, resulted in a touchdown for Williams in less than five minutes after the kick-off. Throughout the remainder of the half Harvard was played to a standstill and the half ended with...
Henry Morris Stephens delegate from the University of California; brilliant historian in many fields; careless of fame, but spending himself without stint to teach others a love of history...
...writer has in mind that character familiar to all of us and so deserving of sympathy. The energetic and able young man, who is careless enough to show his ability early in his career, finds himself at the end of his Junior year the secretary of this organization, the treasurer of that, a member of an executive committee of still another society, and probably implicated more or less in athletics at the same time. When he is finally chosen for a class committee in his last year, he will probably begin to realize the absurdity of the whole thing. First...
...stanza ode in praise of a warrior who has conquered and may now rest. The collocation suggests that the allusion is to President Eliot, who certainly will watch the young men with undiminished interest as they "look toward the fight," but whether he will be content to rest "careless of the war about" is doubtful. The other pieces of verse show differing degrees of maturity of thought, poetical feeling and constructive skill. The most ambitious of these is "A Night Song,"--a lover's homage to his beloved as the two sit together in a fragrant garden...