Word: impugns
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...bleeding herself white with a 20% new taxation. And this to pay reparation debts which, from proposals formulated by America herself, should have been paid by Germany. When France is giving the warmest reception to the American financial experts conducting the examination here it is scarcely the time to impugn France's good intentions in an extreme manner." Le Temps said: "It seems to us that France ought to take the initiative in new negotiations on the War debts. She could begin, as did England, by approaching the United States. First the exact total of the American claim...
...McCann answers categorically: " Full reliance cannot be placed on insulin to protect one against the ravages of self-indulgence. Curbed cravings cannot now be satisfied with impunity. Insulin cannot be purchased to be taken with one's meals." He does not impugn the therapeutic value of insulin, but emphasizes the fact that it is a powerful extract which should be administered only by a physician familiar with its use, and that a constant surplus of sweets cannot be neutralized indefinitely even by regular dosage of insulin...
...recent issue of the Harvard Magazine (White). It seems to be fashionable lately to cast aspersions on Senator Lodge. "Wily, plausible, insincere" he is called by our dean. Anything so vital as the proposed League of Nations must inevitably arouse considerable feeling, but is it not somewhat hasty to impugn suddenly shallowness to a man who has hitherto been accredited with sincerity if nothing else. The Latin heading ("She transit gloria Lodge") itself shows that Mr. Gallishaw once held the Senator in esteem...
...physical exercise or for coaching a school boy team. At that time it was not known to the committee, or suggested to them that he had received money for giving private lessons in boxing, and his word that he had never received a cent which would in any way impugn his amateur standing was accepted. The part of our rule under which the decision was rendered reads as follows: "No student shall be allowed to represent Harvard University in any public contest who shall have taught or engaged in any athletic exercise or sport as a means of livelihood." Additional...