Word: respect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alphabet. He was the wrong man in the wrong place. He speaks for a nation where wholesale smugglery of arms has produced incessant civil war. The very "Chinese Republic" from which he stands accredited at Paris has vanished in a welter of Chinese anarchy. Therefore his position in respect to a mere five carloads of smuggled machine gun parts was exquisitely awkward. No wonder then that Tcheng Loh betook his gangling, spidery self, last week, to the office of paunchy, sleepy-eyed French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, his friend and frequent counselor...
...Willis boom finally became a hollow frogskin when three other names-Lowden, Curtis, Watson-were given out as unofficial "second choice" men for whom Willis delegates might eventually vote. This made Ohio a microcosm of Republicanism all over the country-Hoover v. the Field. Candidate Dawes had the self-respect to forbid the Willis people to include his name on their auxiliary roster, saying he was still for his friend, Candidate Lowden...
...evidently don't know me. It begins to look like I've lost my fortune that I've striven for for 35 years. My office is threatened, it looks as if they are threatening my liberty, but I'm not going to lose my self respect...
...hollow honor is praiseworthy enough morally; but it seems that he is confusing the empty titles so much beloved these days with a distinction that is real. It is to be hoped that his action will not be the prologue to a general lowering of the respect in which Phi Beta Kappa is held...
...drawn up last fall. It is felt that this change would require essentially the support of the administration. This committee will make its report at the next meeting. The clause causing the difficulty states that the Council has the power "To prohibit any man who shows an indisposition to respect the recommendation of the Council from becoming and remaining a member of any college activity subject to open competition, in order fully to protect the rights of the undergraduate body...