Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be of little avail to take alarm at the statistics. If Radcliffe has over whelmed the sneers of a decade, and emerged from a chrysalis of contempt as the most alluring fata Morgana for several thousand potential bachelors, what use caution...
...third best to the professions. But he, bitter against the educational recalcitrancy of England, wanted to make a point against the "hard-dying social stigma which attaches to being in trade" in England. He wants English young men to study for business. Present British industrialists he holds in contempt. Many lack wits enough to be army corporals, he exaggerated, exasperated...
...President and Prosperity. When Mayor Walker of New York City visited the Hearst ranch after the Democratic convention, people said he went to make overtures; to persuade Mr. Hearst, if not actually to support Nominee Smith, at least to "lay off" him, to forget Nominee Smith's bitter contempt for him and to bury the old quarrel. Except for a series of cartoons, showing Tammany as a little yegg in a tiger-striped sweater, Mr. Hearst subsequently published nothing very damaging to the Brown Derby...
Chief Justice Taft replied that he had no jurisdiction to review the complaint. Attorney Serri, still undaunted, continued action with the slander suit, "as a test case ... to call the attention of the legal profession to the need of disciplinary power to punish judges for contempt of lawyers...
...Science of National Defense." This observers deduced from the fact that President Calvin Coolidge said last week, at Wausau, Wis. (See National Affairs): "We cherish no sentiment of aggression. . . . But . . . for the Government [of the U.S.] to disregard the science of national defense would expose it to the contempt of its citizens at home and of the world abroad. It would be an attempt to evade bearing our share of the burdens of civilization...