Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...96th: "Though not mentioned in these articles, all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and discipline, all conducts of a nature to bring discredit upon the military service and all crimes or offenses not capital, of which persons subject to military law may be guilty, shall be taken cognizance of by a general, or special or summary court-martial, according to the nature and degree of the offense and punished at the discretion of the court...
...Yellowstone. They found it stocked with shifty-eyed witnesses intent on the scalp of National Park Superintendent, Colonel H. M. Albright. A long day was spent in listening to stories told to his discredit. He was responsible, he heard, for an exhorbitant motorcar entrance fee of $7.50. Buffalo had died during the filming of The Thundering Herd. Favoritism had been shown to the neighboring Silver Tip Ranch owned by Thomas Cochran (Morgan Partner). Equipment had been loaned to utility companies. There was too much banqueting of Eastern dudes at government expense...
...That's all bunk. It's worse than bunk; it's propaganda issued in a desperate effort to discredit the Air Service...
...story. They and colorful contemporaries live in the book, continuously and visibly. Their author does not psychoanalyze or otherwise distort them. She has employed, with notable poise and richness, the formula of Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga against a thoroughly U. S. background, Chicago. Residents of that vigorous commonty will discredit their citizenship by failing to read this excellent chronicle of its childhood. Other nonreaders will miss a sound, satisfying novel...
...legal nation ever since Edmund Burke told them that they were such, and so public opinion criticised the Methodist tribunals for not having a consistent body of Canon Law to guide their decisions in the varied cases which came before them. Therefore the institution fell into discredit and received the contemptuous nickname of Ku Klux Klan, a corruption of an old wrestling term "Catch-as-catch...