Word: discredits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Afterwards he became a law partner of William Gibbs McAdoo (1919-21) when the firm of McAdoo, Cotton & Franklin represented the Mexican oil interests of Edward Laurence Doheny. Because of Doheny's subsequent connection with the Oil Scandals, Senate Progressives sought to capitalize Mr. Cotton's service to his discredit...
According to President Lowell, the courses realized by students to be easier than average "lower the standard for everything". He gave as examples in this connection, although with no discredit to the men who gave them, the courses in Geology and Fine Arts given by the late Professors Shaeler and Norton, respectively. Speaking of this, President Lowell declared, "Any courses which are regarded by the students as distinctly easier than the others demoralize the whole system. One must be very careful that if one has a course that is more attractive than others, one makes this harder, thereby keeping...
With placid dignity the Christian Science Board of Directors of Boston last week took notice of the taunter and said in the Christian Science Sentinel?:"Because of aggressive propaganda, apparently circulated to discredit Mrs. Eddy and to induce belief that she abandoned her own teaching ... we deem it timely to make the following statement...
...century pensioners. One understands why the editor of a national magazine might reject It--but, if one has been a soldier, one realizes that Mr. Caxton speaks with authority. It is time that reminiscences of this sort were circulated, as it is to the Advocate's credit, and the discredit of American journalism at large, that what is the first of a series that will undoubtedly multiply with the years, makes its appearance under the familiar seals. The Advocate has, in fact, scooped the world...
Morones Forced Out. Not to defend Roman Catholicism, but to discredit the Mexican Federation of Labor was the shrewd purpose of Senor Antonio Diaz Soto y Gama, leader of the rival Agrarian Federation, when he presently declared: "There isn't a man, woman or child in all Mexico who accepts the official charges that the Catholic clergy inspired the assassination of President-elect Obregon. Everybody knows Morones did it. Morones must go, or President Calles's administration will forfeit the confidence of the public...