Word: respect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Progress was pointed to on every hand from every viewpoint and in every respect. Typical was the new lighthouse with a fine revolving light of 25-miles visibility which has just been erected where Monrovia, the capital, juts into the ocean...
...were openly in agreement with the man who accused Dr. Straton of "arguing in circles", "evading the issue", and "failing to present one single item of proof." Such remarks are in sharp contrast to the discussions after the addresses of Dr. Grant and Dr. Fosdick. These men won the respect of their listeners by straighforwardness, and earnest attempt to answer honestly the questions asked...
...intercollegiate athletics. His sane judgements, unerring fairness, and broad charity have through many years formed a sound basis of friendship between Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. His character and personality alone have been ample insurance against serious misunderstanding, and no other man has in equal degree the personal love and respect of the members of all three Universities. I cannot overstate the regret and sense of loss which his retirement will cause here at Yale...
Four hundred years ago, any, bold spirit who broached the possibilities of thought transference would have been immediately fried in oil or pleasantly stimulated, perhaps, with red hot pincers. Times change, however. Galileo, in an effort to keep his self respect without losing his head, was forced to murmur his truths to himself in a defliant which per; but when the modern student can learn without a quiver that a new universe has been discovered from which light takes a million years to travel to the earth, it is safe to assert that the world is becoming shock-proof...
...Labor Party in England a third. Such an alliance is not as outlandish as some are inclined to think. It is, in fact, an alliance of experts--of skilled workmen, although the laborer works with a trained hand while the "intellectual" works with a trained brain. A mutual respect prevails, based on a mutual appreciation of highly necessary qualities. And it is hardly exaggeration to say that the "intellectuals" of recent years--ever since there was a real labor movement--have been almost unanimously in sympathy with labor...