Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...universities in Poland, none is held in higher esteem among true scholars-and none is in a sadder state of repair-than the Catholic University of Lublin. Its run-down main building still bears the pockmarks left by World War II shells. Its students live five to a room, and the thin stew they get for lunch could well stand more meat. But as all Poles know, there is one thing that Lublin has in abundance. "Throughout all the difficult years." says the rector, Father Marian Rechowicz, "we survived on spirit...
Despite its growth, both in numbers and in the esteem in which it is held by members of the academic world, the Society is today little known to the average undergraduate. This is due partly to its loosely defined status within the University and partly to the manner in which it has avoided drawing attention to itself. In 1948, on the fifteenth anniversary of its founding, a brief history of the Society was written for limited distribution by George C. Homans '32, Professor of Sociology, and Orville T. Bailey, a former professor at the Medical School. Another small booklet catalogued...
...characterized by head-bumping, clothes-ripping, hair-pulling and name-calling, with the entire cast pitching in until the cops arrived. Yma's dark glasses fell off in the struggle, disclosing a black eye that had been presented earlier by her husband as a token of his esteem. Wailed Vivanco in court at week's end: "I and the members of my household are in fear of our lives...
...should a top university," queried the editorial, "place in such high esteem and favor a man regarded by many as an unloyal America." Oppenheimer was barred from access to classified government information by the Atomic Energy Commission in 1954, due to "conduct not in the interests of national security...
...long ago a parade of witnesses before a Congressional investigating committee were using the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions about their past Communist activities. Afterwards a number of those witnesses suffered a loss in public esteem. In a few cases they suffered concrete injury because their former employers didn't want to employ them any longer. At this there were loud outcries from a number of people who consider themselves "liberals." They complained that the investigating committee had done a dastardly thing simply by asking the questions...