Word: childishly
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...doubtless too thick-skinned to appreciate the torture their infantile fun inflicts upon others, especially him who "was just getting to sleep." Perhaps, indeed, consideration for other people is something a little beyond their ken. But is it too much to hope that the engine, roarers will curb their childish selfishness after eleven o'clock at night, during examinations? Gregory Smith 2G.B...
...With childish faith in the innate goodness of man, the Student Council's committee on elections has again this year mailed out ballots which require no signature form the student casting the vote. A new precedent was set last year when ballots did not require signatures to be valid, and the Council was properly-chided for believing that even the comparatively pure campus elections had achieved the millenium of political honesty...
...advanced work in any language as part of the distribution scheme. Once admitted to Harvard, a student would continue with the study of a language presented for entrance, or with one for which he has had the requisite previous training. And instead of wasting good College time in childish section meetings, he would early be exposed to a first-rate literature course, of his own choosing as to language. There, even if the student resorts to trots and tutoring, he would at least be introduced to a masterpiece...
...occurred to you that if, as was probable, I died before you, I should for ever have remained post mortem, under the weighty burden of your accusations? . . . Ah, Foch! Foch! . . . What a stain on your memory that you had to wait so many years to give vent to childish recriminations against me through the agency of another, who, whatever his merits, knew not the War as you and I lived...
...Work must be particularly intensified among women," said Comrade Yaroslavsky, ''because in the main they are more ignorant and superstitious than men. And remember always the little ones! In their childish hearts is the future of Great Russia...