Word: deem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...European students who are never too hungry to weight the bread before them alongside the future of their country or what they believe in? Is simple, vocal gratitude the sole aim of the effort? Does the American mentality ignore the psychology of charity so thoroughly that it would deem the American label on gift-food as the ultimate form of good-will missionarying? In this lone sense, Americans who demand formal notes of appreciation, or their equivalents in favors and concessions, are in great danger of becoming the suckers of America's second try at European emergency relief...
This offering might undermine the Communists' formal objection to the project; but their real fear was that the revised river course would sever their armies in Honan and Shantung Provinces. They warned UNRRA that if work continued they would "feel free to take whatever action they deem necessary"-which obviously did not mean a lawsuit...
...wing leanings that seem to pervade the thinking of many political economists. The fact remains that there are no thoroughly left-wing socialists on the faculty when an understanding of this viewpoint is essential and when universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, and Williams, in our own country, do not deem the viewpoint dangerous...
Undergraduates who deem themselves budding Heywood Brouns, Margaret Bourke-Whites, or just plain hack writers will have their first opportunity of the summer term to achieve their goals Friday night, when the Crimson opens competitions for its news, editorial, business, and photographic boards...
...deputy in Washington. To take Nimitz' place, the Navy picked Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance, able, unspectacular commander of the famous Fifth Fleet. As Spruance stepped in, his spectacular alternate in the Pacific campaign-Admiral "Bull" Halsey, boss of the Third Fleet-hauled down his flag, remarked, "I deem it necessary for men of my age [63] to step aside," and walked ashore, headed for private life...