Word: faint
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...made the consulting architect. When he realized that he was not deceived in his suspicion that he was being studiously ignored, he also resigned. His successor, like the apprentice of Michael Scott, the magician of the ironic legend, made a pathetic fiasco relieved only by faint reminiscences of the original design...
...form the political field if his party suffered defeat undoubtedly brought him a great number of votes, the people being in no hurry to lose a capable premier. There have even been whispers of a Republic with Venezelos as its first head but as yet these whispers are too faint to be formulated into any sort of statement or policy...
...tendency to enact uncertain laws seems to be increasing, and, what is still worse, the people tolerate it and there are but faint demands for improvement. Intent on some immediate exigency, and with slight consideration of the larger issues, we create autocratic power by giving administrative officials who can threaten indictment the opportunities of criminal statutes, without any appropriate definition of crime...
...alas, leave much space for work that is less ably contrived. The old receipt has given the old result, and once again the taste that persists is that of the average and not of the distinguished. Perhaps, like the Magazine, the Lampoon craves the title of "representative." Perhaps the faint suggestion of dullness is but the result of a desire to express a mistaken idea of the average of undergraduate fun making. Even so, those of us who believe there is a higher standard and material to measure up to it, are disheartened...
...forget the dying periodical's monstrously serious efforts to clamber up on a platform of representation of the University and reformation of all its faults. We shall regret that humorous appreciation of its own foibles did not come sooner to the Magazine--though we may imagine that even a faint consciousness of the ridiculous in itself might have hastened what is even now an early death. By way of achievement, even though we venture to disagree with the editors in preferring to think that the Magazine did not start the Endowment Fund, we may be frankly grateful to the youngest...