Word: esteeming
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...much-publicized Pepper-Geyer anti-poll tax bill, the filibusterers do more than slight the democratic processes they were elected to direct. The foul blow they strike at Senate prestige joins that body's earlier self-inflicted black eyes to push it into the very depths of public esteem. More important, vital war measures must bow before their legislative sabotage; and now when every minute counts this sabotage is scheduled to last a month...
...years there, Dean Donham has seen and made many changes. In 1919 Harvard's Graduate School of Business consisted of 19 students (some under-graduate), a bookkeepers' curriculum, no classrooms of its own, no library, no prestige. It accurately reflected the low esteem accorded to business by U.S. educators generally. In that year, memorable for its epidemic of violent strikes, Harvard's President A. Lawrence Lowell handed over the Business School to a chubby, 41-year-old Yankee, Wallace Donham. Commented one professor on the decrepit state of the school: "We were a faculty of crocks teaching...
...people a few years ago, until the fortitude of the Chinese people in their suffering opened American eyes. Since mid-April, when the 1942 United China Relief drive began, the U.S. public has given evidence of new understanding-not charity out of pity but charity out of the esteem of people for people. By last week contributions neared...
...public esteem into which Congress has fallen has worried many a thoughtful legislator-and not just for personal political reasons. With a branch of the U.S. Government under attack, it is high time for Congressmen to brace up - not to save their own hides but to preserve the principle of democratic legislation One such worried Congressman is 40-year-old Aimer Stillwell Mike Monroney...
...defense in the great French tradition. "A picture of one's backsides, he argued, was more intimate and personal than a photograph of one's face. To send it to a friend or acquaintance, therefore, was not an insult, but a mark of affection and esteem. Furthermore, it was a token more permanent and honest than the conventional photograph, since one's bottom changes less rapidly and radically than one's face, the latter being exposed to wind and weather as well as the ravages of time." The human face, Monsieur de Malancourt remarked, is like...