Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Undoubtedly, in my mind, the way in which any nation disposes of its dead is a gauge of the cultural life of that nation. Funerals, I think-contrary to the general belief-are not conducted wholly to advertise the standing of the deceased, but as a demonstration of the esteem of the friends left behind...
...been my experience that William J. Bingham, the present athletic director at Harvard, is held in the highest esteem not only by the athletic directors of the other colleges in the east, but by the chief executives as well. He is a gentleman and a sportsman who has made the most of his opportunities in a position which could be termed anything but a bed of roses. He has seen fit to appoint Dick Harlow head coach at Harvard and from the standpoint of getting one who knows football from the ground up and can get the most...
President Edwin Rogers Embree of the Julius Rosenwald Fund has never left anyone in doubt of his low esteem for Southern educational standards. But President Embree is an exceedingly genial man and last spring when he passed through Baton Rouge he allowed newshawks to quote him as saying that Louisiana State University had "every right to come to be included in the first twelve or 15 universities" of the U. S. Month ago James Monroe Smith, president of L. S. U., quoted Mr. Embree as predicting the imminent inclusion of his institution among the first dozen U. S. universities. When...
...city represent the Pope's largest flock-Latin Americans who comprise one-third of the world's 300,000,000 Catholics. Thus the Vatican was happy to emphasize that in sending Cardinal Pacelli as Papal Legate to the Buenos Aires congress the Pope was expressing his high esteem for his Latin American children. Not mentioned at all by the Vatican was a report that one reason for Cardinal Pacelli's going is the prevalence in South America of morbid, unhealthy cults of the Virgin; that the Cardinal Legate will look into these, take steps to suppress them...
...allowing not one cent for the stockholders is one of the greatest pieces of economic injustice that even the New Deal, whose new dealers are very apt to deal from the bottom of the deck, has done. It only goes to show the great self-satisfaction and self-esteem of Mr. Lilienthal to send you the telegram which he did as though the mere fact that the details of robbery were made public justified the robbery...