Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Depression. Consequently, all Screenwriter Stewart had to do to make it look as though the play had been written yesterday was to underscore its already plotted class-angles. Thus, Julia Seton's father becomes an anti-New Deal tory, who regards his prospective son-in-law's distrust of rugged individualistic money-grubbing as dangerously unAmerican. Johnny Case (Gary Grant) becomes the more ingratiating when his ambition to take a sabbatical is presented as evidence of liberal leanings. Linda relates, as her most embarrassing moment, being arrested for helping to lead a strike against a company in which...
Believing it would "increase the distrust now held by many" concerning the impartiality of the attitude a taken by college corporations in academic cases, Davis expressed the hope that Harvard might find some way to right the "great wrong" done to Drs. Walsh and Sweezy...
Opposition to the bill, Pettee said, "has lain largely in the vague distrust of the President aroused by the Court Plan, and by loose talk on the subject of dictatorship." He concluded that "there is no real danger of dictatorship in any part of the Bill...
...never gave a public address; he went to only one scientific meeting in his life. His retiring nature was far from a result of shyness, but sprang rather from a sense of the dignity of the scientific life and a natural distrust of confabs, which he regarded as a waste of time. Emerson's observation about a better mousetrap was particularly applicable to Professor Kohler, for although he forced himself on nobody, his reputation for sagacity and good judgment caused chemists the world over to beat a path to the door of his office for advice on technical matters, academic...
Like Dr. Bock, she has had to overcome a distrust in the student body, and like him has managed to perform her task capably. Her difficulties were increased by the state of flux in which the Hygiene Department has been since Dr. Bock's advent. Discontent with the Harvard health service as he found it, Dr. Bock, keeping the goal of better health constantly in mind, has never hesitated to change the means of reaching it. And one of his means has been the corps of nurses at Stillman, who are ready to effect what he decides upon...