Word: respect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decision left Mme. Schwimmer a woman without a country, for she had renounced her allegiance to Hungary. New York's Congressman Anthony J. Griffin introduced in the House an amendment to the Naturalization Laws to meet Mme. Schwimmer's case, to prevent "philosophic opinions with respect to the lawfulness of war" from barring an alien from citizenship. Said Mr. Griffin: "I do not see why aliens holding the views of Senator Borah ... on the unlawfulness of war should be debarred from citizenship...
Says he: "Hoping always to have my own views and opinions respected, I respect the opinions of others" He says also: "If there were any sound arguments to be advanced on behalf of the use of alcoholic beverages, I wonder if I might not have discovered them in all these years...
Professor Rogers has now carefully explained his advice to young men of Technology that they train themselves to be snobs. He would have them become snobs divested of all snobbery. They are to cultivate self-respect, but equally are they to show respect for the rights and the human feelings of others. This is a dual feat which no snob of past history has ever accomplished, or tried to accomplish. But Professor Roger's snob of the future should be able to compass it, because he is to be a snob in an altogether new sense of the word...
Increased limitations of college enrolment, and the fact that the readmitted Freshmen constitute a greater liability than those merely dropped back into the Freshmen Class on probation, have been the cause of the present action. In this respect it is asserted by the College authorities that the 150 dropped Freshmen are practically much more of a burden upon the shoulders of the Dean's Office than the entire 700 members of the Sophomore Class...
...State's mediator in this Labor dispute. Major Berry was born one county away from Happy Valley. He knows the temper of its people. He was a Vice Presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention last year. Great is his influence among Union Workers. Great is the respect U. S. publishers have for him, for his word keeps their presses turning. His good offices quickly settled the famed New York City Pressmen's strike in 1923, when for several days all New Yorkers were reduced to reading one jointly-issued tabloid for their news...