Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most recent issue of Nature to reach the U.S., a fellow of the Royal Society, Dr. Vincent B. Wigglesworth, at long last pointed out that Wordsworth was a strange bedfellow for scientists' "self-esteem." In evidence, Dr. Wigglesworth cited other Wordsworthian lines...
Some of the pressures are personal, and are remarkably similar to the irks of Washington. Brash, capable, erratic Lord Beaverbrook has come back fast in the P.M.'s esteem, is now very close to Mr. Churchill. It is no secret that Churchill. Beaverbrook and pervasive, ambitious Minister of Information Brendan Bracken are three big bugs-in-a-rug at No. 10 Downing Street. Too often to suit him, Eden has felt lately that high policy came down to him from this trio, and particularly from Beaverbrook. Last week some London correspondents, pondering Beaverbrook's comeback, guessed that...
...opposite wing of the White House. Jimmy Byrnes has now actually become what so many of his predecessors were wrongly touted to be: a genuine Assistant President. Other intimates hesitate to say that the little ex-Senator and ex-Justice, who has grown steadily in Mr. Roosevelt's esteem and confidence, is now closer to the President than is Harry Hopkins. But Jimmy sees him oftener in daytime than Harry does. One big difference: Hopkins' after-dinner sessions with the President are almost always about war problems on which the President makes his own decisions next morning. Byrnes...
...castes, divided amongst themselves, in chronic ferment against the British Raj and all that the Viceroy represents. Lord Wavell had followed monolithic Lord Linlithgow, the outgoing and unregretted 18th Viceroy, into office at a time when the Raj was at its lowest point yet in both Indian and British esteem. Many of India's millions, ordinarily unstirred by and unaware of the political issues which engross the articulate minority, felt in their bellies a failure of the Raj. They were starving...
...idea of joining a union appalls many a scientist and engineer. To a professional man this means not merely the surrender of his individual economic rights, to union leaders whom he frequently distrusts. It also means surrender of his self-esteem as an individualist. So most scientists and engineers have shunned C.I.O.'s union (Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists & Technicians) as well as A.F. of L.'s (International Federation of Technical Engineers, Architects & Draftsmen...