Word: distrusts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Reasons for the selection of the present system no longer apply since there is no longer (a) a distrust of the people, (b) a jealousy of a central government...
...protest; the remaining colleges, Yale and Princeton, seem to have no settled relations with each other. Such a state of affairs is very unsatisfactory to every one who feels that college athletics above all should be free from politics and securely based on frankness and sincerity. Surely this mutual distrust and suspicion is unmanly and unsportsman like and entirely out of harmony with Yale's great moral purpose to purify athletics. All this internal disorder shows beyond question that an intercollegiate athletic league composed of more than two members cannot live in peace and harmony. There will be combinations...
...height of his good fortune, Defoe spoiled everything by a satire on the Established Church, called "The Shortest Day with the Dissenters." It spread consternation and excitement among men of all parties, aroused the intense opposition of the churchmen, and the lurking distrust of the nonconformists. Defoe was vigorously punished, but his hold on the London populace was demonstrated by their enthusiastic reception of him, even when in the pillory...
...reason for the selection of the present system no longer apply. They were. - (a). Distrust of the people, as shown by. - (1) Indirect election of President: Sherman and Gerry in Elliott's Debate V. 135, 161, 168, 223. (b). Distrust of the general government, as shown by: - (1) Gerry in Elliot's Debates: - V. 137, 160, 466, 501. (2) Strict. limitations of Congressional power. - (3) Hesitation...
...arousing disorder and contempt for authority; Nation, 29 Oct. 1891. - (2) By dividing the Irish party: North Amer. Review, Feb. 1891; Times, 12 Oct. 1891. - (b) In England. - (1) By alienating the Liberal party; Nation, 4 Dec. 1890. - (2) By renewing in the English public the old distrust of the Irish character; Nation...