Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...object to the Reichswehr being thrown into the struggle of internal politics. That I reject any sort of political dictatorship I made clear in my recent radio talk. . . . Can the outside world expect the German people to be content with existing conditions? On the contrary there is reason for wondering that the German people bear their terrible distress so calmly and with such discipline. ... A country treated for 13 years as a pariah by the outside world simply had to forfeit the respect of its own people...
...private industry because he had recommended that very thing last December when he outlined the R. F. C. Last May Secretary Mills, as the President's spokesman, appeared before a Senate committee to urge advances to private corporations for self-liquidating construction, only to have the Senate reject it. Last week the President retreated from his own proposal when he saw it extended to the smallest merchant, the one-plow farmer, the corner bootblack...
...suggested by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, who already, at 37, was a moving spirit in U. S. pedagogy. Many an august college president objected. But Harvard's liberal Dr. Charles William Eliot approved, pointing out that such a board would only set the examinations. Colleges could still admit and reject applicants as they pleased. In 1900 the College Board was established in the Middle States. Colleges throughout the land fell in line, gradually discontinued their separate examinations. Today nearly every U. S. institution accepts, and most big ones require. College Board ratings...
...Reject a special 25% tax on admissions to horse and dog races...
Average Occidentals who possess an old piece of almost any kind of Oriental pottery are apt to believe firmly that it is "antique Satsuma." Connoisseurs reject as probably spurious any large piece, since the ancient Satsuma craftsmen whose work is so highly prized confined themselves almost exclusively to small pieces distinguished first by their lustrous glaze, second by the extreme thinness of the hairlike crackle lines and finally by the jewel-like glow and brilliance of the minutely intricate enamel painting. Nearly all "antique Satsuma" sold today is spurious, distinguished first by lustreless colors which result from artificial aging...