Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...postal cards were evidently sent out in an effort to discredit a statement in an editorial appearing in Wednesday morning's CRIMSON. On the return postal card were printed a statement by a New York sports writer to the effect that Harvard would willingly trade President Lowell, President Eliot and an assortment of department heads for a good running backfield, and a quotation from the CRIMSON's editorial refuting the charge. The recipient of each postal card was asked to check his opinion on each quotation "in the interest of statistics," and return the card...
...with great feeling of pleasure that this department hands in a minority report on "Hedda Gabler" which the Copley Players labored faithfully to reproduce yesterday afternoon. It is particularly unsatisfactory to discredit a move towards higher dramatic art, but "Hedda Gabler" was made rather for the genius of one great actress, than for the honest efforts of a stock company. It needs that spark of power to carry it across...
...Colonel Mitchell last week, accusing him of "conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline," making "a statement insubordinate to the administration of the War Department," making a "statement highly contemptuous and disrespectful'' to the War Department and to the Navy Department "with intent to discredit the same...
...charges are made under the 96th Article of War, which reads: "Though not mentioned in these articles, all disorders and neglect; to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, all conduct 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...
...Evening Standard cried: the statement, it is vital that he deny it instantly. . . . Its effect is to discredit British propaganda past, present and future...