Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Departmental economics might make up for the lost fees, the Committee suggested, but added that it did not know if this would yield any funds since it had "the highest regard for Dr. Bock's ability as administrator." (Dr. Arlie V. Bock is chairman of the Hygiene Department...
...contrary, we must have the boldness required to regard possible disaster with as much calmness as possible good fortune. . . we must resist the temptation to believe that because modern man can survey the present with miraculous case (thanks to modern methods of communication) he can therefore foresee the future more clearly than in other times...
Science, like Communism, requires a kind of religious fervor of its practitioners. Scientists assume that they have the right to judge the truth on the basis of experiment, observation and reasoning. They regard any dogmatic authority as a deadly enemy...
...promise, keep it. When you need money, tell them how much you need and why you need it. Try to fix upon a quota and give them time to pay it. The people appreciate considerate treatment. They will follow the pastor who shows them that he deserves their regard and their support. But do not make the mistake of putting money before doctrine. The Lord sent us to teach, not to pass the basket...
When he settles down in his armchair to read, he turns to old masterpieces (two recent exceptions: the poetry of Pulitzer-Prizewinning U.S. Poet Robert Lowell, which he admires, and a German biography of Albert Einstein, for whom he has great regard). Santayana is never too busy to see visitors, but has little time for other people's opinions. To his New York editor he wrote: "Visitors do not need letters of introduction. Tell them all to come and see me; I shall be delighted to see them, on one condition: that I do all the talking and they...