Word: discrediting
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...study force him to omit all but the diplomatic history of the period; nor is there any method used in the writing of the book other than that of judicious selection. The economic flavor of Professor Beard's former works, that economic bias which has done so much to discredit what its pedantic opponents have seen fit to call the "new" history, is to be found in "The Rise of American Civilization", only in the degree to which it may best blend with the political history, the social history, the intellectual history of the subject with which the study deals...
...regular judicial machinery is incapable of dealing, differs in no essential respect from the appeal to the King's conscience out of which our present system of Equity has grown. Even if such a commission should rec commend a pardon it would not over-whelm or discredit the finding of the Court. The commission would, like the Chancellor's Court, fill in a gap which the common law has left open. The creation of a Court of Chancery has not exhausted the power of the Sovereign to do justice in any case in which it is obvious that the existing...
Plato's Republic was to be ruled by men who took leadership as a necessary duty, rather than as a pleasure. Democracy in his mind rated only next to tyranny as the poorest form of government. The McNary-Haugen bill put through merely to discredit the administration, advice of Joseph Daniels to the democratic party that they base their 1928 platform on Republican corruption, Haines' recent reappointment --all these go to suggest that Plato was right...
Forwith, Secretary of State Kellogg, after a consultation with Haitian Minister Hannibal Price, cabled President Borno that his objections to Mr. King are an affront to the U. S. Senate and a discredit to Haiti. Perhaps, said Secretary Kellogg, Mr. King might lose his hostility if allowed to visit Haiti. Within an hour President Borno cabled back that under no circumstances would he allow Mr. King to land on his shores. "Mr. King's utterances," said the Negro President, "are a personal insult to me and to my people...
...Crimson does not expect to remain an isolated champion of the Banner of the Seven Veils and the Bell which Rings in the Dark. Some other official spokesman for the ethereal may quickly come to the aid of this lady whom the Albanian Comus would discredit. Until then the Crimson stands alone Margery, essence, quintessence, undefiled, the local pid to notoriety the face which launched a thousand messages she must not be defiled unless Congress would really like to investigate...