Word: discrediting
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With the customary lack of authentic information, another rumor of President Lowell's resignation has appeared in the headlines. Prompt denials of the story made by University officials serve to discredit this type of baseless news, several similar exhibitions of which have been made in the Boston press during the last few years...
...long ago the Supreme Court of Nebraska was asked to rule on an injunction against the Minneapolis law firm of Davis & Michel. The court upheld the injunction because "agents of these attorneys were traveling in the State [Nebraska] soliciting employment . . . haunting the homes of the injured and bringing great discredit to the legitimate practice...
When a pure-hearted scientist meets a phenomenon which he cannot explain, he humbly admits his ignorance, asserts his hope that future Science may be able to explain all things. But many a scientist of high standing and great ability is quick to discredit what he cannot explain...
...less difficult to think clearly on the Prohibition subject. As is illustrated by the pamphlet mentioned above, many we reformers have been setting the British system up as the solution to America's most virus problem. It substantiated with the elements of truth, the results of this research discredit the English type of Houor regulation and command the impartial attention of wets as well as supporters of the Eighteenth Amendment...
...Daisy de Boe, onetime secretary to Clara Bow, testified last week when placed on trial by her employer, accused of embezzling $16,000 from a special account on which she was allowed to sign checks. Unable to disprove the embezzlements. Blonde de Boe tried hard to excuse herself and discredit Clara by attributing her own evil to the bad influence of the cinemactress...