Word: odium
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...past years Geography has been more a name than an institution at Harvard. Such isolated courses as Geography 1, faintly reminiscent of the odium of a "snap", have fallen to the lot of a conspicuous minority of undergraduates. Geography as a study is only too often a memory of the fifth-grade...
Last week Mr. Burke left his White House desk a while to ponder a reply to Mrs. Willebrandt's statement. She had transferred the odium of her Springfield address direct to him and his Republican National client. Careful not to contradict Mrs. Willebrandt in any major particular, Mr. Burke responded...
...Then when another lady writes you to reprove you for your second exhibition of bad taste, you "crawl." There is no other term for it. You defended yourself by pretending you expected the publication of such trash would lead others "to join with TIME in holding them up to odium and detestation." Pray where is the odium you provided? Then you say that when such verses affect a campaign, you print specimens. So no matter how cheap, insulting, offensive the campaign material may be, you will print samples and then reprint them under people's protests! Bah, TIME...
...these typical verses were of a self-evidently odious and detestable nature, TIME would expect both Mohammedans and Buddhists to join with TIME in holding them up to general odium and detestation...
Trans-Atlantic Talk. When William Crapo Durant, stock market operator, was in Europe this summer he spent more than $25,000 on trans-Atlantic telephone calls to the U. S. But never for one call did he, nor anyone else, ever spend as much as F. B. Odium did last week. For 95 minutes of speech he paid $1,425. He is director of several U. S. electrical companies, notably, of Electric Bond & Share...