Word: taint
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...first-rate aphorism is as hard, as clear, and as slowly to be digested, as a diamond; a bad one is more like a cut-rate banana. A. B.'s meditations in this tough form are uneven, carry a literary taint ("the gods," and "Milady"). But a great many are sharply perspicacious, quietly durable...
...openly boasts athletic scholarships. This follows from the abolition of intercollegiate competition last year and the attempt to set up a vigorous intra-mural system. Trained athletes are necessary to this plan, and St. John's doesn't see why they can't be educated too, now that the taint of big-time sport is removed...
...Adams wrote that "hardly any college seems free of the taint" of bolshevism; and deploring this "subversive" tendency, she provided that her gift not be used by universities allowing this movement. One-half the estate was to be divided by M. I. T. and by the Harvard Medical School for deserving students...