Word: discreditably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brocken at night, smeared a goat with blood, honey and the scrapings of church bells, incanted the Latin Abracadabra. Urta Bohn, selected as being "a maiden pure in heart," officiated. Said Fraulein Bohn: "I guess I am as well qualified as any girl nowadays." The experiment, to discredit an old superstition by failing to change the goat into a young man, was successful. Next day Maiden Bohn was in bed with a severe cold...
...that there is a large body of unreflective sentiment in favor of justice by extra-legal methods cannot be doubted. This is particularly true in the South, and Georgia in particular has had a high total of lynchings to her discredit. Federal investigators of conditions have prophesied that increased construction of state highways here, bringing rural communities into closer touch with the judicial machinery, will curtail mob action. Anything destructive of the sentiment which motivates such action must be welcome. Representative Crisp's move, a step in the wrong direction, may be pleasing to his constituents. If he does...
...with irrelevancies. The original group, led by Theodore Dreiser and Waldo Frank, raised a cloud of publicity which centered almost exclusively on themselves, and which in the case of Dreiser was of an exceptionally shabby character. The air of ineffective dilettantism which surrounds their adventures has gone far to discredit in the public eye the cause of the miners. It is doubtful if half the people who have read the press reports are aware of the industrial conditions under which the miners live, the underlying cause of the existing conditions...
...Frontier in American History", which appeared some forty years ago, revolutionized historical writing. Not only did it establish the frontier as the chief factor in moulding life in the New World, but also it emphasized the social and economic aspects of history. This novel conception did much to discredit the old school of writers that had considered the past as a series of wars and political campaigns. The work of Dr. Turner, more than any other single cause, put American History on a scientific basis. He had the rare combination of fertility in ideas coupled with a vast store...
...been rumored that much hair is torn to fill this column. May the assurance that little to no loose hair has ever been discovered in the "News" office and the brevity of today's editorial discredit so false a rumor. --Yale News...