Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fired." Unable to compete physically with the other brothers Eisenhower, young Milton went after recognition through mental achievement. To his surprise and surpassing pleasure, Milton found himself rising high in the esteem of brother Dwight, who rewarded Milton's scholastic accomplishments with prizes from his own slender wages at the Belle Spring Creamery. "I was tremendously impressed that Dwight wanted me to succeed," says Milton today. An Abilene schoolteacher, Annie Hopkins, was installed in the household to supervise the homework of both Milton and Earl, did such an expert job on Milton that his Latin teacher accused...
...measure of Ike's seriousness is that able Arthur Larson, who articulated the philosophy of Modern Republicanism (A Republican Looks at His Party), has long ranked high in presidential esteem. As director of the U.S. Information Agency, Scholar Larson was cut up by the long knives of politics on Capitol Hill (TIME, Oct. 28). But his credentials in the law area are hard to beat. A Rhodes scholar who took honors in jurisprudence at Oxford (B.S., M.A.). he rose from a Milwaukee practice to dean of the University of Pittsburgh Law School, was appointed Under Secretary of Labor because...
...William Juhasz and Abraham Rothberg (87 pp.; Random House; $2.50), is a collection of seven short stories by Hungarian writers. Some of the authors took part in the recent revolt and wound up in jail. Some, not all, were Communist Party members, and some stood high in the esteem of their masters. Yet all are aware, in varying degrees, that they and their countrymen are living falsely because they are not living freely. Not all of these stories are good and no one of them is first rate, yet they are pathetically moving because their authors can be felt...
Throughout our history one of the great strengths of the United States in the world has been that it could depend upon the support that lies in the decent opinion of mankind. Today we are plainly in danger of losing esteem...
...pork chops. In fact, he is lucky if he is not stereotyped as "a bumbling, woolly-minded theorist, somewhat timid, thoroughly impractical, unfit for any other occupation." So says Harold Seymour, Ph.D., associate professor of history at Manhattan's Finch College, who deplores the low self-esteem of the scholars of high degree. His remedy, proposed in the Educational Record: henceforth, all Ph.D.s should insist that they be addressed as "Doctor." Writes Dr. Seymour: "The title 'Doctor' commands special respect among laymen, and by failing to use it, the professor is casting away a ready means...