Word: contemptible
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German Nazism with its frank contempt for the intellectual life is driving the nation back into savagery...
Every Harvard student, as well as all who have lived under the shadow of Harvard and its traditions for the past 40 years, must appreciate your delightful sketch of "Kitty" [TIME, Feb. 17]. You refer in this article to his supreme contempt for all proponents of the Baconian theory. This I well know to be true...
...lecture hall at the top of a narrow flight of stairs so that a prompt exit was needed to avoid jostling and a delayed departure. The latter group, smaller and more select, being largely composed of graduate students, met in an ordinary classroom and was treated with somewhat less contempt...
...industries business again last week gave London the impression that all they knew and all they are likely to find out is what they had read in the papers while U. S. Senators were sending agents snooping through munitioneers' files, forcing witnesses to testify under oath and threatening contempt proceedings (TIME, Sept...
...Kitty's" supreme contempt, however, is reserved for proponents of the Baconian theory. Once at a Yale dinner he listened to a clever speaker "prove" that Shakespeare's plays could have been written by no one but Sir Francis Bacon. At the end "Kitty" arose, picked up the menu, gravely announced: "Gentlemen, I shall now prove that this menu was written by John Keats...