Word: specious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convocation ad dress: "College officers are forced to hold due reservation and to remain only mildly impressed by eloquent contentions that colleges exist solely to satisfy the wishes of the undergraduates. . . . What seems best for mankind as a whole cannot be forgotten or ignored in college management for the specious satisfaction of con forming to an ephemeral undergraduate opinion or the desires of self-centered individuals...
Gambling is a production in his best Broadway manner, possessed of a sharp, exciting first act, a specious but persuasive denouement and a cast that includes also Mary Phillips as Mazie...
Faced by this project for speedy disarmament, could League slow-pokers retort successfully to the plausible if specious Soviet plan? Could they discredit it, tear it to tatters, and at the same time justify before public opinion the League's slow, plodding ways? Such a task required _a Cicero - or, as Anglo-Saxons said, later in the week - a Cushendun...
There has crept into general usage recently . . . a form of punctuation . . . consisting of three dots . . . that give a specious appearance of dignity and importance to their literature . . . and are felt to enhance the impression that the writer strives to create . . . In advertising puffs . . . especially in advertising snowy linen . . . and beautiful silver . . . and trips to the Riviera . . . and other nice things . . . it has superseded all other punctuation. . . . But it is also being widely used in novels . . . where the comma has gone into a decline . . . and the reader reads in a coma . . . Even in the psychological study. . The Locomotive God . . . the interesting...
...guard against the obvious dangers, and to eliminate one by one the improper practices until, precisely as in the case of our banking structure, we may be able to establish fairly definite and generally accepted standards for distinguishing the sound from the unsound, the real from the specious? When installment selling comes to be measured by these criteria, we may expect to learn that the innocuous and the salutary must not be confounded with the inappropriate and the regrettable, and that, in its ultimate and refined forms, installment credit will be recognized as constituting a significant and valuable contribution...