Word: everyday
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...income is moderate. And though good fortune plays its part and seems occasionally to pour wealth into the lap of its favorites, the average business man gains his modest "competence" by a combination of knowledge, persistence, good judgment in estimating values, and courage in making or seizing opportunity. Everyday business is not an adventurous speculation...
...Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life," says Auerbach. It does a great deal more than that: it broadens and deepens the souls of men; it makes them see beauties in life and its emotions which the profoundest philosophy and even the finest poetry cannot call forth. And the extraordinary opportunities for musical culture which are afforded in this vicinity have always been one of the great assets of the University...
...undergraduates in courses out side the English Department. The subject was brought into prominened by certain breaches of English grammar discovered in examination papers. It is the object of this committee to remedy this situation and improve the general tone of the language used by undergraduates in their everyday class work. Hereafter any glaring breaches of good usage in written papers will be reported by the instructors to the Secretary of the Committee who will communicate with the student and endeavor to help him avoid such faults in the future. Frequent offenders will be obliged to take a special course...
...days, religion will cast off the cloth and wear, so to speak, the common business suit. In this garb it may well make a deep appeal to some who have considered creeds as things apart from themselves, and worship as a detached something which may hover around everyday life but which never has much to do with...
...beginning the reporter must be content and must be able to state plain facts in a plain way. The young man who expects to enter journalism must teach himself to do this. Flights of speech are out of place in the crisp and concise recording of the everyday facts in the burning of a house or the sale of a piece of property. First, last, and all the time, the beginner must write straight to the point. If he is satisfied that he has the capacity to gather the news, that of writing simply, quickly and accurately is the only...