Word: discredited
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...with outraged screams and howls upon the entire program, called everything off and retired to his study mopping his clerical brow over the narrowest call of his career. The lads had selected as a subject: 'Which of its graduates, Richard Whitney or Franklin D. Roosevelt, has brought more discredit to Groton...
...soften Mr. Robb's criticism of the Guild's "cockeyed"' tactics. He warned the Guild it was making "slow progress" because: 1) it "gives more thought to antagonizing publishers than it doe.s toward promotion of the objects for which it was formed"; 2) it "attempts to discredit all advertising" and boycotts circulation of struck papers; 3) its Guild shop makes "the possession of a Guild card the prime requisite to a man's right to work on a newspaper-more important than character . . . and ability"; 4) it thinks it can "guarantee job security ... a fraud...
...opinion of many of my friends that your editorial and account of the reception of Jane Anderson reflects discredit on Harvard undergraduates. I think you should point out that the great majority of Harvard students there were courteous in spite of political faith, and that as well as catcalls, there was plenty of applause. The unruly elements were a small number of Communists who came, not to listen to the lecture, but to cause a disturbance. And most of these Communists are Student Union members and leaders...
...definite assurance that Stanley Reed's appointment to the Supreme Court will not prevent his sitting upon the finals of the Ames Competition at the Law School answers, but does not discredit the Crimson's earlier expression of doubt on this subject. The questions posed yesterday have reaped the indignant and confident rebuttal printed elsewhere. That confidence is blind to the fact that supreme court appointments are extremely touchy matters. Justices, whether potential or confirmed, are of necessity super-shy with regard to any and all public appearances that might be used in any way as the basis...
According to the Vassar Miscellany News, the Club is a "vicious attempt of a thwarted Yale man to discredit the name of Princeton before the world. We raise our voice to publicly disclaim sympathy with the fictitious Lonely Hearts Club...