Word: mistrust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent interview. "It tends to put the student on a firm moral basis as an individual, and so far as it does this, it reflects a growing tendency which has colored every phase of modern life in the world of today. This tendency is characterized by a growing mistrust by people in the theory of competition...
Even some educators have a persistent mistrust of academic work as a main college pursuit, as a sufficient and dominating undergraduate discipline. They are, perhaps not always consciously, afraid that "the native hue of resolution" will be "sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought." Such an attitude in the world at large is unfortunate; among educators it is inexcusable...
...tangle of issues, political and religious, imperial and native, which serves as background to Gandhi's personality. For five and a half days Gandhi has fasted in the interests of his twin ideals, a united and independent India, and the greatness of the Hindu religion. Despite an Anglo-Saxon mistrust of dramatic heroism the ordinary observer is following Gandhi's struggle with admiration for the idealist willing to sacrifice his life for what he believes to be right...
...Sergeant Leonard did his job well. . . . Yet there is something more precious than freedom from sedition and that is freedom from mistrust in human relationships...
...star of the educational motion picture is definitely in the ascendant, despite the mistrust that its distant cousin, the ordinary movie has aroused in the minds of those who mistrust macadamized roads to learning. In the fields of science, the films have proven their value in illustrating processes that are not susceptible to demonstration in the ordinary way. For example, the physics class can see the intangible force of magnetism made concrete by animated drawings, while the biology class can watch, clearly enough on the screen, the moving forms of a tiny organism and the mysterious division of a living...