Word: cheapness
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...that we have a large public nurtured in the tradition of buying; the foreigner who settles in our reading atmosphere finds to his surprise that we purchase as well as borrow books to an extent unknown abroad. The "shelf" movement had its greatest success here; the new cheap editions were nowhere received as enthusiastically as in the United States...
...many men in the University really know their own justification for being here? They are full to the heart with the belief that Harvard is supreme; they cultivate a cheap loyalty in cheering her on to victory in athletic contests. Yet, if they were asked by a disinterested person why they came here rather than to Colby, or Dartmouth, or New Hampshire State, they would not know. A man, or a boy or twenty cannot answer that mother liked the Crimson color, or father thought it was near home, or sister Susle wanted to see all the big games. Nevertheless...
...Talking to your opponents, if it falls short of being abusive or insulting, is not prohibited by the rules, partly because it ought not to be necessary and partly because no rules can make a gentleman out of a 'mucker.' No good sportsman is ever guilty of cheap talk to his opponents...
...plan and have practically promised contributions to finance the establishment of a training camp, to be situated on Long Island, near the already constructed flying field at Hempstead, in Atlantic on the site of the old Harvard Aviation Field, or in the vicinity of Charles River Village. Any flat, cheap tract of country will be adaptable to the requirements of the corps...
...Timothy Cole, the veteran wood-engraver, will lecture at the Fogg Museum on the art which he has so long practiced with distinction on Tuesday. In these days of cheap, mechanical, and rapid-process work, for purposes of reproduction, there is little demand on the part of publishers of books and magazines for the kind of personal interpretation in black and white, which a generation and more ago called into being Kingsley, King, Church, Kruel, and a host of others whose names were then household words. To the rising generation the very names of those honorable artists and craftsmen...