Word: timide
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...other. To delay the formation of such a body by "nominations by petition" or futile discussions of the minutiae of ratification by everyone who is to be affected by the "direct jurisdiction over individual students" is, to say the least, shortsighted. Such a policy is part of the timid conservatism which killed the old Student Council. EDWARD EIRE HUNT...
...requested that timid spectators do not crowd about the rink, lest they be injured by careless combatants. For the reassurance of the faint-hearts it may be stated that after 4.01 o'clock a sufficient number of ambulances will be on the field to care for all injured young boys, and two wards have been reserved in Stillman for their treatment. It is reported that the doors of the new frat house on Mt. Auburn street are to be painted black out of respect to the dead, and defunct editors will have their names engraved on tablets in the banquet...
...amusing, but stimulative of thought about certain phases of American life--stimulative because conceived in thought and developed by close thinking. Again, too, we face the unconventional, for in 'The Great Divide' Mr. Moody handles situations from which our stage even a decade ago would have shrunk in timid trembling, and in the 'Faith Healer' he enters the field of religious belief, a subject, till within something like a decade, thoroughly taboo for our drama...