Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ride-horseback, and complained about being rushed in her meals. She likes to cat butter than almost anything else. "I don't see any sense in this dieting. When I am hungry, I like to east," Svelie, not to say conspicuous, lines testified that her figure thrived on her distrust of dieticians...
...harvest of bitter strikes which General Motors rasped this winter started some second thought in its councils, which led to the dismissal of the agency. This public pillory of one company must be impelling the others to reconsider the wisdom of bossing the workmen by fear and distrust, for the cost of spies is great and the increment from their use is disastrous. If it is important that the executives know what labor is up to, better systems can be devised to find out; many factories have them already. The half million dollars a year that, for example, General Motors...
...theme. Instead of forcing the inevitable issue, instead of determining then and there in whom lies ultimate authority and getting it over with, he slid all the way down the bannister again and perched beside Mr. Roosevelt's policy of "expediency". In the liberal camp there is great distrust of the amending process, not because it is sluggish, but because it may turn in the wrong verdict...
Public administration in the United States has always suffered from the ingrained democratic distrust of experts. Hitherto, perhaps, this distrust has had some justification. In the first place the typical expert with whom we have had experience in government has been nurtured apart from the realities and so given to fitting his task to his theories. Also, with a comparatively modest bureaucracy, we have been better able to afford the trial and error methods of the deserving partisan. But now government has so expanded its functions that it has become the country's major industry and the need...
...than the history of the novel. English F should be bolstered by two regular half courses, one open to Freshmen in the primary tricks of speaking, and one to teach the advance principles. There is an ancient bogey that such courses would be "snaps", arising from the department's distrust of its own ability to enforce strict standards. It would not stand in the way of a reasonable, sensible arrangement towards producing...