Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scholarship in this country is in disrepute. It is a commonplace that Americans, although they go to extremes in their adulation of education in the abstract, have contempt or condescending toleration for really educated men. If this contempt is less than it was among the general public or if in the colleges high scholarship among students wins more respect than it did ten years ago, the modification of public opinion has by no means been decisive...
...President of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union as "crafty old Mrs. Ella Boole." Mrs. Boole is respected and admired by thousands for her statesmanlike leadership and wholehearted devotion to a great cause and the use of such disrespectful terms will only merit the contempt and disgust of decent people for the one who uses...
...composographs" (faked pictures) of murders and bedroom scenes on the excuse of "acquainting readers with life's realities." It published sexy stories and sex pictures to "help tear down false prudery" and "to demonstrate the benefits of physical culture." Scarcely a newspaper, it earned the name "pornoGraphic" and the contempt of decent journalists. Its circulation hit a peak of 350,000, dropped steadily for the past three years...
Thus President Hoover, with an engineer's contempt for diplomatic mincing around the brush, called on the Geneva Conference last week to hurry up and do something to justify its long French name: La conference pour la limitation et la reduction des armements...
Vainly osteopaths pleaded that they would be barred from surgery, medicine, drugs and liquor permits. In vain was a quotation from Dr. Louis S. Reed's report to the Committee on the Costs of Medical regarded it with contempt. In recent years the progressive evolution of osteopathy, the modification of its 'theory,' and the elevation of professional and educational standards have led doctors of medicine to assume a more tolerant and less hostile attitude. There is distinct evidence to the effect that with the further elevation of osteopathic standards the osteopaths will be assimilated into the regular...