Word: obloquy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston Marathon by eight seconds. Outdistanced by not outsung by the extensive corn cure conducted by promoter Pyle, this local run has swelled recently and rapidly of an institution, and is one of the few from an endurance stunt to the dignity Boston institutions to escape the obloquy of the enlightened. And if, eight seconds in this instance seems as short as the twenty six miles seem long, they gain added significance in the fact that this year's race was the criterion of choice for the Olympics. The race, indeed, is so influenced by this, by what it reenacts...
...Buchman is a Christian evangelist so unusual in his practices that he has brought considerable obloquy upon himself (TIME, Oct. 18, Nov. 1). A graduate of Muhlenberg College and a Lutheran minister, he has discovered that ordinary church work fails to reach many nominal Christians. Neither are these people affected by the conventional tabernacle howlers. Aimee Semple McPherson, Dr. J. Frank Norris, William A. Sunday can reach great crowds, can excite many a soul to march up the sawdust trail to salvation. But the enduring effect of such theatrical evangelizing is always dubitable. More important, few of the hymn-singing...
...Lorenz returned to the U. S. two months ago (TIME. Jan. 18). He came boldly. Withal in the back of his mind was memory of distress. On his previous visit in 1921 and 1922 the U. S. medical profession had thrown such obloquy over him that for a time his good humor became only a mask. He had come to repay with his surgical skill the protection and aid U. S. munificence had afforded Austrian War-emaciated children. His method of correcting congenital deformity of the hip was "bloodless," that is, he did not use the knife. His procedure...
...fullarmed from the inspired heads of nine most Jovian wits, nine muses of the day. No CRIMSON midwife fostered it, and it has thrived on jests more recent than the daily news you render us in your dull, homely columns. Let this letter stand as a testimonial to your obloquy...
Teacher John Thomas Scopes remains convicted. The "classic struggle" has been permitted, by its erstwhile foam-mouthed partisans on both sides, to dwindle into obscurity. The anti-evolution law stands in Tennessee, but, satisfied with their momentarily magnificent gesticulations, the evolutionist newspapers no longer keep bright the diadem of obloquy with which they crowned that state...