Word: resentfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...professions of, medicine, law and the ministry are appreciated as high callings; and business is set down by popular consent as merely commercial-neccessary for money making and financial support but essentially worldly, often sordid. As a bishop with the blood of business stock in me, I resent the Insinuation, and claim that essentially the calling of business has in it elements of faith, character, romance and chivalry associated with the highest callings. Myriads of men and women in little shops on the side streets of our cities, in towns and villages throughout the land, are quietly working out that...
...Commissioner of Internal Revenue in estimating income tax receipts, originally did not resent the figures quoted above by the Democrats. For each year he submitted a figure just $100,000,000 below the figures for his estimates quoted above. The Commissioner heard the Actuary's views, reconsidered his estimates and later added $100,000,000 to each year. Thus he presented the figures quoted above, which were then accepted. Result: For 1924 a decrease of $87,000,000 from the Actuary's figures, an increase of $100,000,000 from the Commissioner's original estimate; for 1925 a decrease...
...Personally, I am strong for religion," continued Professor Holmes, "and I resent attacks against sectarian schools. Teachers should have some responsibility over religion. When a man takes up the profession of teaching he devotes his life to the general betterment of his pupils. He becomes fundamentally interested in advancing man to his furthest ends. Religion is undoubtedly so closely connected with this purpose, that a teacher, in order to achieve his end, really must teach...
...Miracle: "In a pamphlet, entitled An American Protestant Protest against the Defilement of True Art by Roman Catholicism, I was accused of being an emissary of the Pope, an 'alien Judas Iscariot tool for Jesuitical propaganda.' Said I: 'I am proud of being a Jew, but I resent bitterly being described as a Judas. The Miracle is a work of art and not a religious propaganda...
Nevertheless, the Pope points out that this arrangement is admittedly a compromise, not entirely satisfactory. While he urges all bishops to adopt the plan, he does not insist. Most French bishops accept the compromise, but some "diehards" resent...