Word: discreditment
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...elected it. In his book, Yesterday-Tomorrow, written during the war, he wrote his own epitaph for the Third Republic. "The old teams," he wrote, "moving slower & slower, went in & out 'making the little tour,' always with a little more skepticism, always with a little more discredit." Of ministerial crises he noted: "At the first hot episode the cement would melt and everything would have to be done over again . . . Sometimes the government was overthrown on the very day it presented itself to the Chamber." Of the presidency that he would later fill, he wrote: "The President faithfully...
...Discredit may be brought on the University if financially unstable groups are allowed to use the name of the University...
Morris noted that newspapermen were "only human" and tend to make human mistakes. "A responsible paper," he said, "must not play up or discredit stories or personalities. It should not try to sell through distorted headlines. It must present all points of view, and, above all, it must run straight news to inform the reader...
Fortunately, a growing consciousness of the importance of maternal health will eventually discredit this medieval meddling . . . Meanwhile, in enlightened communities, conscientious obstetricians such as Brownsville's Dr. Stephens will be provided facilities where doctor and patient, alone, will determine what is best...
Councillor Chester B. Higley said "it is terrible and tyrannical to investigate people for headlines." W. Donnison Swan '17 added "this is the kind of irresponsible legislation that brings discredit to the Cambridge City Council...