Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ready to believe that abolition of alcohol would make for social uplift. The slow arrival of that uplift has not discouraged Idealist Hoover about its ultimate arrival. The sharp swing of public sentiment away from the present law challenges his stubborn nature, for he holds mass thought in low esteem. Even his political ambition is part of this attitude, his Quaker conscience telling him he must continue in his position, cost what pain it may, for the ultimate public good...
Today brings around the thirtieth anniversary of the Phillips Brooks House which for so long has held a position of esteem and appreciation. Throughout its history the organization has ever given aid to outsiders and established pleasant contacts with hundreds of people who might otherwise have been beyond the reach of the University. By continual and impartial action it has brought together numbers of persons in the cause of human welfare, irrespective of class and faith. Within the hospitable doors of the organization foreign students have found the friends and acquaintances which they need...
...played the violin. But everyone did not know that he had married twice (Louise Wheeler in 1889. Elizabeth Mooney in 1905), that he had quietly divorced his first wife, had been divorced in Reno by his second. But his disapproval of women in public did not lessen his esteem for their personal capacities...
...independent corporation. Some of its members are officers of the University; but since that time it has been in no degree subject to University supervision or control. Its forecasts appealed to business men so much as to bring the society a large number of subscribers; but neither in this esteem nor in any failure of indications to come true has the University any share...
...even widely held that the birth of a son to Prince Chichibu would be an intolerable affront to the Son of Heaven. Thus far Crown Princess Setsuko (daughter of onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U. S. Tsuneo Matsudaira * has remained childless, an object of Japanese sympathy and esteem. Without venturing a direct comment, the genealogical experts of the Imperial Household Ministry discreetly apprised the press last week that there is no precedent requiring brothers of the Emperor to defer to him in this respect. Public opinion, according to the experts, must not be allowed to crystallize upon an idea oppressive...