Word: adly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inasmuch as Coach Claflin wishes to give a thorough grounding in fundamentals before starting on more ad-advance work, no formal scrimmages will be attempted this week and in all probability will not become a regular feature of the afternoon's work until well into next week...
...seems that while our restaurants are merely keeping us alive, we are expected to stuff their cash registers ad nauseam...
...really thinks clearly unless he has thought long and profoundly; unless he comprehends the point of view of those who do not agree with him; unless he has found out the limitations of his own principles; for all theories, principles, maxims, and rules of human conduct can be carried ad absurdum. They all have their proper limits, because at some point they come into conflict with other principles not less true and not less limited. A doctor, for example, is sent for by a patient whose life may depend on how soon medical attendance arrives. The doctor's obvious duty...
...over the country; yet some Harvard men have never given even the most cursory examination to the invaluable Comparative Zoology exhibit or the Ware collection of glass flowers. Hundreds of students daily climb the main stairway of Widener, but comparatively few ever think of the Treasure Room. Examples ad infinitum might be cited to show how pitifully unresponsive undergraduate sometimes are to the unique resources of Harvard...
...This, too, is the only way production can be maintained, and this he has failed to do. In striving to keep up the production of the industries of the country, and yet not weaken his regime, he has tried nationalization, socialization and communization which last is only a development ad infinitum of the principles of the first two. None of these schemes accomplish the result he had hoped for, and Taylorization--making production 100 percent efficient--served only in raising Russia's output to 25 percent of the normal. The absurdity of his last scheme--that of using the water...