Word: esteeming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arabia"); near Bagdad; in an automobile accident. Ghazi loved speed, had a Mercedes coated with phosphorescent paint, a U. S. Auburn, a plane fitted for acrobatics. No. 1 feat of his 5-year reign: holding a balance between Arabs in his kingdom (about the size of California) who esteem Britain, hate Britain (and rioted after Ghazi's death). Heir: his 4-year-old son Feisal, under the regency of Uncle Amir Abdul Ilah...
...than John Hay. At 22 this spirited, sharp-eyed son of an Illinois doctor became assistant to Abraham Lincoln's wartime private secretary, John G. Nicolay. An adept in handling cranks and job-hunters, a shrewd political observer, personable, sympathetic, young Hay quickly rose in Lincoln's esteem, went everywhere in wartime Washington, missed little. He shared a room in the White House with his good friend Nicolay, held many a nightshirt conversation with the "Ancient," or the "Tycoon," as he nicknamed Lincoln...
...wire to the CRIMSON Disney said, "Robin Feild is held in high esteem by our staff of over 300 practical artists. I don't know of a better recommendation, and can only say Harvard's less will be someone's gain...
...schools, Superintendent Campbell promptly sent an order to teach tolerance to the city's 1,250,000 school children twice each month. Principals are to hold school assemblies describing the contributions of all races and nationalities to the U. S. "in a way such as to develop esteem, respect, good will and tolerance among students and teachers...
Like patent-medicine manufacturers, the Oxford Groups of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman esteem testimonials. From their London and Manhattan headquarters they send out batches of statements from the great and the near-great, praising their trademarked remedy-or at least denouncing the ills it is meant to cure...