Word: acclaim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showed off at its best. More important, Citizen Calvin Coolidge showed off in return. From the moment California's Governor Clement Calhoun Young and Los Angeles' Mayor John Clinton Porter met him at the bedraped station until his departure for Santa Barbara to visit Mark Requa, he received enough acclaim, applause, and attention to flatter a President, to say nothing of a king...
Although his work has not been of a character to excite popular acclaim, his career has been attended by substantial, rather than merely flashy accomplishments, both in research and in education; and the importance of Professor Hughes' contributions to science has been amply testified by wide recognition from experts. Membership in numerous scientific organizations of importance including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science bears evidence to the high esteem in which Professor Hughes was regarded by fellow scientists...
...name of the young man who called forth this unusual and cultivated acclaim is Brewster Morgan. He hails from Kansas City. He is a Rhodes Scholar and the first U. S. president of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. I. B. Morgan, Brewster's father, is Kansas City's superintendent of schools. The son is 24, attended the University of Kansas where he was famed both academically and socially. More than anything else at college he enjoyed those informal talks and arguments which U. S. undergraduates call "bull sessions." Co-eds termed him "an interesting date." He slept...
Biochemists, however, will give the Doisy group the first acclaim because they published their work first. There may be injustice in that, for the editors of scientific publications are practically always dilatory in letting a researcher reach print...
...biggest U. S. bankers are essentially promoters. The biggest U. S. tycoons are likewise better known for feats of enterprise than for managerial shrewdness. Last week, however, Frederic Christopher Dumaine, 63-year-old treasurer of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., received great acclaim for an accomplishment that involved neither a bright idea nor super-salesmanship...