Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...take place for many years to come. The speaker then went on to show many specific evils that actualty exist, especially in the congested portions of our large cities and in mining camps as a direct result of the influx of these illiterate people. They have learned to distrust all government and to take no interest in political affairs. When they do vote they do so in a way debasing to American citizenship. They become fraudulently naturalized and give their votes to the party offering the highest bribe...
...those commercially engaged upon the Pacific. Naturally the group of interested nations will not be pleased to see some one of the group in exclusive control of the common station. Russia, our sworn friend of the past, has for the first time begun to chafe. Germany has mainfested distrust of our chief justice in Samoa...
...same ends as he, and every whit as earnestly as he. Yet he has attacked individuals under the committee's jurisdiction, without giving them a chance to speak for themselves. The course he has thus taken runs the risk of error, and it tends very strongly to cause such distrust and illfeeling as to destroy the influence which he might exert as the ally of the conservative movement in the colleges toward athletic reform...
...Mott Haven team are reminded that the entries for the class games close with today. As yet the entry list is not nearly as large as it should be to make the games the success of former years. Evidently many of the new candidates are hanging back through distrust of their own ability. They should, however, reflect that every year numbers of men win points at the spring games, and in some cases make the team, who have had absolutely no previous experience in track athletics. Indeed, if only the members of last year's team could be depended...
...their punishment should not, and will not, stop with yesterday's dishonorable dismissal. They should be made to feel that their conduct has aroused the deep indignation of the class and has earned for them its thorough distrust. None of them should be allowed to play on another class or 'Varsity athletic team...