Word: sneering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fear of forced resignations has reared its ugly head above the younger members of the Faculty. Its nasty grin sends safaris of instructors deep into the jungle of Widener stacks to capture its food, productive scholarship. Its threatening sneer drives assistant professors into huddles of desperate whispers...
Harvard will never sneer at Latin. Its value as a subject is apparent to almost every educated man. Nevertheless, the time has come when Latin must stand on its two feet and enter into fair competition with other fields of education. To convince students of its value, supporters must do more than praise its worth, they must exhibit the characteristics of which they boast. Three hundred years ago, the Faculty required that Latin be spoken on College grounds. We doubt if even Mr. Rand would advocate this now. Since the turn of the century Greek has been omitted...
...House Sophomore who had a deep and lasting affection for all other Sophomores. That is, until a few weeks ago. Now there is an Adams House Sophomore whom he simply can't abide. Every time the D.H.S. sees the A.H.S. the D.H.S.'s upper lip curls into a nasty sneer. The A.H.S. grins with complacent satisfaction. They do not speak...
...jumped Dr. Torald Hermann Sollmann, 60, professor of pharmacology & materia medica and dean of Western Reserve University Medical School to sneer that Professor Bancroft's experiments on rabbits and chickens were not sound. "How many of your associates are taking sodium rhodanate?" bantered Professor Francis Gano Benedict, 64, Carnegie Institution nutritionist...
...depends in time of war. When Major Attlee compared the armament traffic to the whiteslave traffic and insisted that at the very least the manufacture of munitions should be taken out of private hands and made a prerogative of government, Sir John Simon neatly beclouded the issue with a sneer, "Does the Right Honorable Member mean that privately-owned brothels are wrong but state-owned brothels right?" Finally and flatly Sir John said that the National Government of ex-Pacifist and ex-Socialist James Ramsay MacDonald will not permit a "roving inquiry" of the U. S. Senate type in Great...