Word: disrespective
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...join in conducting a poll among University undergraduates. What the results of this poll may prove, we cannot definitely say. But we hope that it will be of some slight help in causing something to be done about what, in our opinion, is a most unsavory condition--the disrespect for law in the form of the Volstead Act and the terrific corruption in city and town governments resulting from efforts to "beat" that law. --Brown Dally Herald...
Vice. James William Crabtree, secretary of the N. E. A., read a report on the moral vicissitudes of Detroit high school pupils. Although there were fewer toss-pots discovered among young Detroiters than in 1917, there was an increase in stealing, parental disrespect, sexual delinquency. To blame: dance halls, magazines, automobiles, liquor, broken homes...
...rise of the hand of policeman, stop rapidly. Do not pass or otherwise disrespect...
...into the "entire question of law enforcement and organized justice." He tried to subordinate Prohibition in the inquiry, to make it only one of many elements to be scrutinized. To the agenda were added such matters as immigration violations, the jury system, anti-trust statutes, court procedure, narcotics, general disrespect for Law. In the President's re-explanations of the investigation, Prohibition dwindled almost out of sight...
...recently published in the New York Tribune, L. N. Kaplan, manager of the newly-formed organization, points out that merely because Harvard has not been able thus far this year to secure competition for its brain team, is no basis on which to argue that learning is held in disrespect in the colleges...