Word: decentered
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Take our faculty for instance: Langfeld is gone, and Baker, and I have no doubt that others will follow. Something is wrong there, possibly the business school. Then, too, the yard is being "cloistered" to death, is being made to resemble a factory rather than a decent campus. To misquote Patrick Henry: "Give us our grass and our eim trees or give us death preferably the vegetable matter...
...municipal court has ruled that selling "decent wine" is to be distinguished from dealing out bad moonshine, in that it merits only half as large a fine. The effect of this decision on the liquor law is still uncertain, but the same principle might profitably be incorporated into college policy...
...gallery. They had it all to themselves. Outside, the grey skies of Northamptonshire cast a twilight about the old house, blurring the trees that lined the avenue up which no one came. Everyone else, indeed, had gone long ago, but still they stayed-beauties, wits, gallants, a decent sheet pulled over the face of each in the silence and shadow of the voiceless gallery...
Imagine a decent self-respecting publication which coined the bully-term "Gum-chewers' sheets" devoting a column to advertising the unspeakable Bill Hearst...
...Langford Reed is one of the modern wonders of the world. After plowing through sixteen thousand limericks in preparing his forthcoming book, "The Complete Limerick," he still clings nobly to his original conviction that there are enough decent limericks to fill a book--George Eernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett, and others to the contrary notwithstanding. Mr. Reed is courageous; but, although his volume is not yet on sale; it is a good wager that the average of his selections will fall considerably below the poetic level of those delectable lines on "The Young Plumber of Leigh", which Mr. Bennett, if correctly...