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Word: reproachfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exceptions taken by the letter appearing in these columns yesterday to the CRIMSON's objections to the plan of the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature which sets the written divisional examination in Junior year do not, the CRIMSON believes, reproach the validity of the main objection. This was, briefly, that to set an examination which shall serve solely as a voucher of understanding sufficient to permit intensive specialization makes the examination only something to be got out of the way as easily as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "... NOT IN KIND, BUT IN DEGREE" | 2/8/1929 | See Source »

...than literary discoveries; economic and political changes have come so thick and fast during recent year that they have not yet lost the fascination of novelty for the public, but the existence of such a vast expanse out side the mental bounds of any civilization will remain a constant reproach to its leaders until it be included...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUT OF THE EAST | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Purists rejoiced that Viscountess Byng of Vimy and of Thorpe-le-Soken possesses a silver pass key by means of which she may assure herself at any hour that the conduct of her tenants is still above reproach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bread Flung, Coal Flung | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...Briand addressed the League in such militant, 100% French fashion as last week. Usually he exhales the grand hymn of International Concord. Last week he snapped like an angry Frenchman at enemy Germans: "It is very easy to make fine speeches about peace, and I know I have been reproached by my political enemies for producing words instead of deeds. I do not say that the German Chancellor is one of these reproachers. His speech was very eloquent. Still I could not help feeling that some such reproach underlay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Schweinehundl! | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...begun. No athlete will any longer conceal his possession of a good brain and a taste for reading. No student need slink apologetically across the quad, feeling himself useless to his college and his university. No publisher or theatrical manager will dare to use "intellectual" as a term of reproach; and no smart, uneducated worldling will sneer at the "academic" futility of the university man. But in order that the Harvard-Yale idea may have its full effect in England there must be visible rewards for prowess in the new forms of sport. Blues and half-Blues must be awarded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 6/21/1928 | See Source »

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