Word: impugnable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have done grave injustice to my friends, the Rattlers, and incidentally, you impugn the courage of us professional snake experts. I quote...
There is mention of integrity in the statement and this I consider pretty trite as to me it seems an elementary assumption that in this stage of American, progress, personal Integrity is a part of the concept "presidential candidate". Would anybody with professional training venture to impugn the honesty of either Mr. Smith or Mr. Thomas...
Inquisitor Walsh interrupted his young colleague and asked if he knew whereof he spoke. Senator Nye retorted that he did. Inquisitor Walsh, looking puzzled, sat down. Indiana's Robinson, delighted, proceeded to impugn Governor Smith and asked that he be hailed before the inquisitors. Inquisitor Walsh hastened to promise that no such action would be taken and to deplore the aspersions on Governor Smith's reputation...
...Columbia for a second week withheld its action on the evidence that Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair and friends had shadowed the petit jury which was trying him for criminal conspiracy, and the further evidence that Detective William J. Burns and aides had perjured themselves in an effort to impugn U. S. agents for jury-tampering (TIME, Oct. 31 et seq.). But the involved Fall-Sinclair oil scandals were not altogether without further lucubrations last week...
...them religion has been the most reluctant to admit the wisdom of control. The sacred writings of all religions make specific injunctions for generation, impugn sterility. The barren woman must hang her head; the fertile woman is praised, yet not glorified. Her labour is not pitied. However, the Protestant churches have begun to examine the problem. High prelates of the Church of England have advocated control. The Protestant Episcopal Church, at their San Francisco general conference last June listened to sane expositions (TIME July 4). Their viewpoint is, of course, ethical. They would balance a moral equation-their dogmatic injunctions...