Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain changes have taken place in the competitive system which are the cause of the August Senior's contempt for present-day compets, and which at the same time are the answer to the above-mentioned faculty point of view. The change came largely as the result of high casualty rates among compets. The public attention which attached itself to these casualty rates, though it caused much hard feeling at the time, was a good thing in bringing about alterations in the competitive system. Slavery has been abolished; compets now have a few rights as students which their bosses must...
...author of this tract, do say: Since Batando and Aquinca hold each other in mutual contempt, there are those that cry aloud: "Let us not have this spirit of hostility--are we not brethren one to another? Let Aquinca open his heart to Batando and Batando to Aquinca and there will be an end of littleness; yea, such a joyous exchange of fellowship there will be that we will return to the state of our ancestors, when differences between one man and another were unknown...
...Nations are not moved solely by self-interest", he declared, "but also by motives of racial antagonism. That is the great danger. It means contempt and suspicion among all countries and the estrangement of nations between whom there should be the fullest degree of confidence. Men must acquire a spirit of international brotherhood and good fellowship, without which radical change of sentiment no agreement or peace can ever take place...
...came as a distinct blow to Rolland. His plea for peace and universal understanding seemed a thing of the past. His life work, seemed undone. Without hesitation, and with a contempt for popular opinion, he continued to urge the people to listen to him. Though it meant that he must live in what was practically a voluntary exile in Switzerland he gladly chose to do this in order that he might remain true to his ideals. There he wrote his "Above the Battle" (1915) and corresponded win Hauptmann, caring nothing for ridiculous accusations of being Pro-German so long...
...interesting to note that the administrators of the railroads should turn to a university professor for light upon their complicated problems. In spite of the traditional contempt in which "men of affairs" hold "men of learning", the latter are constantly proving the value of seclusion in meeting the difficulties of the every-day world. All or which serves to emphasize the fact that contempt is no more than traditional...