Word: discredited
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...expected of Rhodes scholars and too many generalizations are made concerning them. It is an argument that quickly comes down to a question of individuals. If William A. Breyfogle, elected this year from New Hampshire, is an enormous and conceited jackanapes, he will surely be unpopular and a discredit to the U. S. while at Oxford, and a useless citizen, talking through his nose, when he comes back. But if, on the other hand, he is intelligent and sensitive, he will find, clinging to Oxford like the thick leaves along its walls, a glory that is green in every year...
...Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, U. S. N. retired, said he was so perturbed by the cruiser news from Eng land that he could think of nothing else. He quoted, without naming, a high U. S. official who viewed the British move as a British bluff, an effort to discredit and obstruct the Coolidge program in the 70th Con gress, which meets this week...
...oldest institution in the world, which for nearly two thousand years has exercised unbroken dominion over the souls and often the bodies of men contains in itself something of the dramatic. It has had its supreme glories, and its supreme failures; its moments of pride and its moments of discredit; its days of brilliance and its nights of shadow...
...other hand, if the decrease in enrollment is not traceable to the motor edict, the university will have same cause for wonder. It would seem that the circumstance must reflect discredit on either the attitude of the incoming freshmen or on the university authorities for some unknown cause. It is to be wondered which of the alternatives is the more salutary...
...confuse further an already delicate issue would seem extremely unwise. How the matter will be settled remains to be seen, but it appears that Russia has been placed in a much more awkward position than Poland, and it will probably require very acute statesmanship to save the Soviet from discredit both at home and abroad...