Word: decentered
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...their assistants, abolish the huge office with the filing cabinets and the private contracts and the secret understandings and all the rest. Come out into the open, let in some light upon athletic dealings in our great universities. Permit youth to run its own games and sports with the decent frankness of youth. If the boy of to-day at the age of nineteen or twenty is not competent to settle his own football schedule, by what stretch of imagination is it to be presumed that he will be able, a year later, to take his part in the complex...
...shock in their ordinarily clean newspaper. Thanks to the Sunday clerk of a committee of the National Republican Club, this committee, with no constructive program, no civic pride, no regard for the fair name of the city, labored and brought forth a shower of hydrogen gas,* offensive alike to decent Republicans as well as Democrats and independents. As for my private life, I will match it against all the Pharisaical composers of that tirade. . . . The papers assert that the chairman of the committee is named 'A. Fox.' This is evidently a mistake. There must have been some confusion...
...outside world Spain is the only country in Christendom that has devoted herself, at the cost of everything that is modern, decent and enlightened, to the preservation of her romantic soul...
...Francis Pearse of London bought an automobile 30 years ago. Until three years ago, he used the same car on his daily rounds, but then it failed him. Last week he said: "I have bought a plot of ground near a cemetery to give it a decent burial. I shall drive it through the city to the burial-ground where it will be broken up and interred...
...explain it, but I can sense how they will play together, in each other's arms, or kiss each other. ... If there is love at length, it must be decent. They have got to play straight with me and with each other...