Word: decentered
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...many years since a similar contest has been staged in Cambridge. With the coming of prohibition and the subsequent popularity of cruder forms of alcohol, beer has been forced to take a back seat position. Authorities on the subject feel that Harvard men today cannot make a decent showing, since lack of practice and bad alcohol have done little to develop undergraduate stomachs...
...summer prevented him from returning as he had planned, and he wrote Livingston, requesting him to sell the books for what he could get. Since the books project was launched under the Enterprise name, though illegally, Livingston has undertaken to sell as many books as possible at a decent price and return the owners the rest...
...formulate a plan for the release of the Karlsruhe prisoners and to take measures to provide decent prison conditions for the Hansfstaengl demonstrators, a meeting has been organized for Thursday evening at 7.45 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House. Several faculty members have agreed to be present at that time...
...Beard's desire to establish "a decent American civilization" is admirable but it is doubtful if such a plan of isolation and independence that he suggests would accomplish this purpose. Nationalism eventually leads to a false idea of unity and self-sufficiency and while not "perverse" is certainly naive, short-sighted, and counter to all the traditional ideas and laws of economics...
...letter dated November 2, and addressed to the same 4000 graduates, Mayor Russell charged that Simpson's letter is "conspicuously unfair because it violates the main rule of decent campaigning, whereby Congressmen in one district refrain from interfering in any other district." He continues, saying, "I am not asking help from anybody in Chicago, nor do I ask your support because I happen to be a Harvard...