Word: disregards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Petroleum. In 1924 President Coolidge appointed an oil conservation board, saying: "The supremacy of nations may be determined by the possession of available petroleum and its products. . . . Over- production in itself encourages cheapness, which in turn leads to wastefulness and disregard of essential values." Fear of anti-trust prosecution has retarded oil curtailment in the U. S. In certain states there seems no legal way to coerce small producers. The Federal Oil Conservation Board has suggested a six-day refinery week; the American Petroleum Institute since its organization in 1920 has championed curtailment; California's law prohibiting the waste...
These affairs are worse than unintelligent intoxicated exuberance of the secondary school type. Immaturity even in men of college age can always be tolerated. But such an astounding disregard for the rights, if not the opinions of others, can be condoned on no ground. The opprobrium of bad taste is not even a sufficient indictment. Arousing men out of bed to annoy them with assinine questions all night long is bad enough, but to attempt to spread rumors about the President of the University shows an absolutely unexplainable height of sheer offensiveness...
William Webb Ellis Who with a fine disregard for the rules...
...conquest of her has taken place, Caryl goes to London. Sebastian follows, continuing his bland usurpation of Caryl's life. The reasons for these happenings are bona fide. They are found in Sebastian's genius, in his egotism, his self-sufficiency, which enable him to disregard the minutiae that make up most of Caryl's life. They also are found in Caryl's defeatist recognition of Sebastian's genius...
...conducted. The chapel, like the entire church, is replete with symbolism. But, although the church is modeled after the Gothic Cathedral of Chartres and the chapel an adaptation of the Romanesque features of the Cathedral of St. Nazaire at Carcassone, there has been throughout a careful disregard of inherently Roman Catholic symbolism. Whatever the Scriptures suggested to Riverside iconographers, that they designed. Thus the chapel reredos is dominated by a massive cross. Above its crossbar is the hand of the Father and the dove of the Holy Spirit and, carved small, the cruciform Son. However, the nave door...