Word: respect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never loses his head nor gets in a fit of panic, never fools himself by magnifying irritating details into devastating evils, nor by dismissing serious difficulties as trifles, like so many of his colleagues. Passion has no place in his thinking. Orthodox and insurgent will listen to him with respect and attention because he always has something of value to impart to both...
...Patterson, Supervisor of the Medical Service of the National Tubercular Association: "Calmette's position in the scientific world is such that any announcement on his part is worth the utmost respect...
What is a paper of the plain people, by the plain people, for the plain people? In plain, simple language it is a paper with the largest and blackest and boldest of headlines?a real rival in that respect for Wm. R. Hearst. It is a paper which carries on its front page stories of "Bomb's Deadly Work," "Fleeing Heat, Dies as He Falls Off Roof on East Side," "Divorcée's Navy Romance Revealed in Suit," "Pair Captured After Chase in Narcotic Theft," "General Wood's Kin Three Days in Sea." It carries three snappy pages of sport...
...companies which definitely excluded from their policies in most precise terms all risk of loss or damage by earthquake have not seen their way to pay any claims in respect of risk which was so clearly excepted. The wording of the provision excluding risk of earthquake was, it is understood, submitted to and approved by the Japanese authorities before its issue...
...Were they to have paid the claims in respect to such damage, the wording of the policy conditions would have been set at naught and a precedent would be created which might well have proved disastrous to the conduct of insurance on sound lines...