Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fish and his party can only counteract such diplomatic and economic considerations with vague fear and distrust of a nation with whose political composition they are not in agreement. With kings and emperors, with any other negations of the democratic ideal, Mr. Fish is not troubled. He might even, he says, consider recognition were Russia a socialist country. But with him the aged chimera of revolt obscures the definite and practical advantages of normal relations with a powerful political unit. The glory of maintaining such a prejudice as this is, as Mr. Fish may find, not a wholly unmixed...
Sardinia, due south of Corsica, is a large island in the Mediterranean belonging to Italy. But Sardinians remember other allegiances-once they were Moorish, once Spanish, once even Austrian. Clannish, independent, like all islanders they dislike and distrust dwellers on the mainland. Authoress Posse-Brazdova tells a grim tale of a Sardinian private during the War who. told that he could not take to the rear a prisoner he had captured, made sure of him by biting through the artery in his neck, guzzling his blood in great gulps. The Sassari Brigade (Sardinian) was the only one that...
...above analysis casts, admittedly, an uncomplimentary reflection on the undergraduate's attitude. But the question remains as to whether the University desires his cooperation in its financial measures, or his distrust. If it desires the latter it has only to continue the policy which it has maintained throughout the accumulation and disposal of the dining hall surplus...
...Germany; but America lacks these. History has taken that position in this country, according to Professor Fay because of its coherence, its excellent documentation, and its unusual symbolism. The hardness of colonial life and later that of the frontiers, has left a heritage of realism and a distrust of imagination. Hence is the desire of "every American citizen" to have a "clear consciousness of his 'Americanism...
...their judgment; those teachers lose sight of the fact that good writing is dependent, not on "the effective humanization of a child" but on the rigorous exercise of writing in imitation of good authors. When abecedarians begin to speak of "effective humanization of a child" one can understand the distrust which intelligent foreigners so often have of the American public school system...