Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unflattering suggestions have been published in many newspapers. Dr. Angell thus seems to say: T deplore your coming. I am anxious lest you set a bad example to our young people. I am afraid that you will break a law which I love and respect, and get us in discredit with the police. I am afraid that you will get drunk on my doorstep...
...even necessary to assume that the theory of evolution is true. All one need assume is that it may be true. This possibility religious bigots deny. Truth to them is a tiny wad, and they claim to have it all. Such a conflict will do much to discredit religion. The real enemy, however, is not religion itself, but the obnoxious and blighting egotism of some of those who profess...
...unflattering suggestions have been published in many newspapers. Dr. Angell thus seems to say: "I deplore your coming. I am anxious lest you set a bad example to our young people. I am afraid that you will break a law which I love and respect, and get us in discredit with the police. I am afraid that you will get drunk on my doorstep...
...uninfluenced by persons outside the Department. The writer of your editorial has apparently forgotten an incident which took place early in this year, in connection with which the Senate discussed this whole matter; and in spite of the efforts of Senator Walsh and others no way was found to discredit the Department of Justice. As to the use of perjured testimony by the Government. I have no answer to make;--but may I ask if the writer has ever read or seen the evidence of either side, which has been, or is to be, presented at Washington...
...disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the military service...