Word: approbrium
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...which the Whitney region is famous. Every stream and lake on both sides of Whitney, Langley, etc., has a species, or variety, of trout known as "golden trout." I have seen the trout and eaten them, but, being no fisherman, can only repeat what others say and thus escape approbrium, namely that they are found nowhere in the Sierras except in this limited locality and that attempts to transplant the spawn to other places do not produce the same fish. Again experts tell me they are simply rainbow trout, modified by the environment, and hence they change back...
...Delcevare King '95, whose notorous "scofflaw" contest brought him national praise and approbrium, is now engaged in announcing the winners of his subsequent prize offers for the best statements on why a "scofflaw" is aptly denominated by that term...
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