Word: contemptible
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Iose an excellent athlete for a whole season than to let an equally brilliant man break training once or twice a year. The opposition will say that with training a man is put on his honor, and breaking training is equivalent to breaking his word. Hence, the prevailing contempt of the act. This is as it should be. But why the breaking of mental training is any the less contemptible, we fail to understand. Perhaps the weight of moral responsibility is less imminent in the latter case, but the fact that probation permanently deprives the team of services which should...
...tempered young husband; Susan Long, who in a fit of anger has recently arranged a divorce from him in the Dakota courts; their Aunt Sapphira, unexpectedly returned from Tangier, where the Long have supposed the natives killed her; and a sheriff looking for Long to serve a writ for contempt of court...
...itself the neutrality of the Panama Canal will add immensely to our practical efficiency as a people in working for peace; and the surest way to destroy all power on our part to work for peace, and to render our conduct in seeking peace a subject of derision and contempt among the nations of mankind, would be to abandon the work of upbuilding the United States Navy and to refrain from fortifying the Panama Canal. The conduct of the misguided men who advocate such policies stands in the most striking contrast to work like that of Elihu Root...
...member of a University team breaks training physically, he is looked upon with contempt and disgust by his team-mates, the coaches and by the undergraduates as a whole. This is as it should be, for the athlete in question has deliberately done his best to demoralize his team and lessen its chances of success. He has shown himself unfit for any position in which he is entrusted with the success of other...
...speech at the CRIMSON dinner President Lowell said, "I have a contempt for any young man who has not some of the seriousness of maturity about him...." We have not a doubt that the seriousness, and the ideas, too, are here, but they are as a rule cleverly concealed from the vulgar public eye, at least, so far as the College papers are concerned. With so many interesting problems about us, it is a pity that more men will not "come out of their shells" and express their ideas in print...