Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever give up your contempt for Harvard 'babies'; but when the rattles start sounding from Arizona, Montana, Texas, Florida, and other parts of the country, think of us Harvard 'babies'," said Alvin M. Josephy '36, in a letter he sent yesterday afternoon to United States Senator Huey P. Long. This was the first shot in a nation-wide campaign to unseat the gentleman from Louisiana. A small group of students met yesterday to form a plan of attack, and as a result, a letter was sent to 100 American universities. Liberal-minded students were urged to sent "letters or telegrams...
...storm had made the Bowl a lake, drained just in time for the game by three fire engines pumping all night. Even with a soggy field and wet ball as equalizing factors, Stanford started a 2½-to-1 favorite. Pacific Coast fans had been loud in their contempt of Columbia, derisive of Stanford for ever inviting Columbia to play. Easterners who conceded Columbia a chance were regarded as provincials whose enthusiasm had blinded their judgment. One who was not bothered by such talk was Louis Little, the big-framed, booming-voiced coach who in four years at Columbia...
...suckle. Next to Prohibition, he detested the machine age, refused to use a telephone or ride in an automobile. His favorite vehicle was a coach, originally built for President James Monroe, which he bought in 1870. Sometimes he would hitch it to a team of oxen, to emphasize his contempt for motors...
...psychoanalysis, the cinema. In London last month urbane George Stuart Gordon, president of Oxford's Magdalen College, half-humorously commented: "It [the Supplement'] gives the impression of a talented, nervous, highly-strung generation, equally harassed by its pleasures and its pains. ... I find too many words expressing contempt for age -'dodderer,' 'back number.' and so on. There are too many words devoted to the expression of passing moods extraordinarily analyzed. No one should have had time or leisure to distinguish the fine facets of moods so clearly. I find loo many ingenuities...
...thoroughness which the relation between the subject matter and their own field would dictate, can the tutorial system come into its own. It will be urged that the efficiency of the college as a police officer would be materially lessened; one can only answer with complete gravity and complete contempt, that this is perfectly true...