Word: resentational
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kobe (advising Japan to take up birth control): "There is no reason why Japan should continue to expand and demand the right to overflow other countries which naturally resent an influx of a lower civilization...
...into dull squabbles. Evanston's brought an unpredicted turn. The lay members of First Methodist Church, among them President Fred Wesley Sargent of Chicago & North Western Railway Co., backed up their Dr. Tittle, issued a manifesto: "We stand for a free pulpit and a free church. . . . We vigorously resent the effort of outside organizations to dictate to the Church or to prescribe its message...
...Dinners are a little more socially enlivening than would be expected, but a visit to the common room after almost any meal reveals that fraternity has not thawed the icy rodent heart. In all things a sober, studious tenor is preserved, an anomalous condition which has several causes: many resent the appellation, "Rabbitt"; others are browbeaten by the influence of Mather, which has been aptly likened to a prison yard; but chiefly, there is a pervasive atmosphere of dignified indifference, established by the more mature residents, which, though stultifying, is not without its merits...
Polish people resent such terminology for that section of Poland. Only German propagandists relish the use of the sarcastic term, "Polish Corridor." It is a disrespectful term, and in observance of the status quo of Pomorze, and for the sake of brevity, Pomorze for all TIME, please...
Said the Most Rev. William Temple, Archbishop of York: "For some reason which I think perfectly idiotic, there is a special sentiment against hanging women. I do wish the women of England would rise up and protest. I think it is a horrible insult to them. They ought to resent it with ferocity...