Word: hideously
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...alleviate the excessive exuberance of these nocturnal revellers, it makes a sorry lullaby for those who would like to sleep. Some of us merely like to sleep, but there are others who need their rest, and it will be more than inconsiderate if these noisy brawlers continue to make hideous the night...
This morning at the mystic hour of 8 o'clock the Seniors will gather in front of Holworthy Hall to go on their annual picnic. In spite of the protests of many years the morning will be made hideous by the blowing of horns and other instruments of torture, and everyone in Cambridge will know that the Seniors are off on a tear. While decent people are trying in vain to sleep, the members of the class of 1909 will receive a mug and a horn from the window of Holworthy 9, and will have their picture taken under...
...these heroes of ours, and to all soldiers of like spirit in the civil war, we owe debts which can never be paid except in respect, admiration and loving remembrance. We owe them the demonstration that out of the hideous losses and horrors of war, as out of pestilences, famines, shipwrecks, conflagrations and the blastings of the tornado, noble souls can pluck glorious fruits of self-sacrifice and moral sublimity. And further, we owe them a great uplifting of our country in dignity, strength and security...
...purpose of helping the poor, miserable inhabitants of the slums. He thought that by showing people in what a desperate state certain districts of London were, he could induce many to take hold and aid him in the work of salvation. He prefaced his scheme with a diagram, pronounced hideous by the lovers of high art, but by it he hoped to lead people to see the dark sea of misery and crime, which was so near them. We give a man the name of drunkard or tramp, said the general, and then turn away in disgust and think...
...only to these who are to take our places, but to the University, to do our part to help along the plan of the Appalachian Club. A strong expression of feeling from the University might aid materially in preserving the banks of the Charles from being made a hideous spectacle of factories, wharfs and tenement houses; as well as save them from the ravages of ruthless speculators. All we are asked to do is to sign the petitions which have been left in places of easy access-a slight effort in view of what it may help to accomplish...