Word: dismissiveness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...taxation problem was discussed by Senator Wadsworth, especially in regard to the reduction of taxes by the Republicans. One way we cut down expenses was to dismiss thousands of Federal employees that were stumbling over each other in Washington...
...forgot it the better. 'Pull off your uniform,' they said, 'find the place you had before the war and stay in it'. 'Act like a Negro should act,' said one newspaper, 'work like a Negro should work. Talk like a Negro should talk. Study like a Negro should study. Dismiss all ideas of independence or of being lifted up to the plane of the white man. Understand the Necessity of keeping a Negro's place.' In connection with such admonitions there came the great collective attacks on Negro life and property in Washington, Omaha, Elaine, and Tulsa. There came...
...lesson touches what has been the topic of the hour since the war and even before the war, namely, the relation of liberalism and education. Has a University the right to dismiss from its members any person who does not agree with its views, who is advancing along what he considers to be the road to mental, and sometimes physical, freedom? The author thinks it has not, and, in this case at any rate, proves her point with niceness. True, she takes an exceptionally strong example with which to work. The founders of this country, she points out, were rebels...
...Americans, living now in your concrete sky-scraping tents, are still a nomad nation without any civilization". Thus does Dr. Ku Hung-Ming, writing in the New York Times calmly dismiss whatever pretensions we may cherish as to the advancement of these United States...
...told, comes far from measuring up to this standard. We have no great literature such as a Shakespeare or a Voltaire or a Homer might have written. Of the great men who are "high and perfect types of humanity" Dr. Hung-Ming speaks little, and then only to dismiss Washington from the roll-call of the great by characterizing him a good average...