Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explained by resentment at any tentative attempt to invest the Freshman Dormitories with those attributes which have for so long been the monopoly of the Gold Coast. But anyone who finds sensationalism in the mild comment of the reports in question betrays a purposeful search that does him more discredit than the reports could do to any Freshman...
...swear that if that man is not a mountebank, as Mencken contends (and I am afraid Mencken is wrong) he, at least, most assuredly, is an unpardonable crank, a sort of belated Don Quixote of new puritanism, who ultimately will discredit the highly responsible office he holds, in a highly modernized society...
...vain, weak father never to forget the contingency that if Elizabeth died childless he was heir to the English throne. Within a month Darnley had shown himself to be a selfish, inconstant, drunken roisterer, vicious and contemptible. A hired assassin could have murdered Rizzio, her Italian diplomatist, but to discredit Mary, Darnley was persuaded to have it done of his own will, at the very door of her chamber in Holyrood. "Well, ye have taken the last of me, and so, farewell," she cried to him when she recovered consciousness...
...Reisner was loathe to believe that the scarred remnant of a sarcophagus which was found and left in the main mortuary chamber of the Great Pyramid had ever contained the body of a king. He was loathe also to discredit all the theories of Herodotus and so he set his assistants to work on the edge of the rock platform. The hundred native laborers were made to clean off thousands of tons of sand and debris which were thrown into the valley beneath. Then the trained archaeologists were put to a minute clearing of the naked rock...
...Princeton, Colebrook was easily the outstanding performer, and he was besides, the most valuable man on the ice. Time and again he proved to be the boy at the dyke, and of the 32 shots that rattled off his pads, skates and stick, many might well have counted without discredit to his goaltending ability. Next to him, Davis was the most active Tiger, and Hallock and Captain Wilkinson also played consistently, the latter opening the scoring, while Hallock caged the other two of Princeton's three tallies...