Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large gathering which heard Colonel Winship yesterday in the Stadium. To his statement that if the nation is to be prepared, college men must, participate in the preparations, no exception can be taken, although one may be inclined to believe that the example of Harvard in this respect might not be the stimulating influence he anticipates. But it is necessary to regard the summer training from a patriotic point of view, rather than from the standpoint of personal benefit, if one is to wax enthusiastic...
...Ever and anon there rises to speak In the Lower House of Congress a man who, in respect of learning, is without equal in that chamber. Long since, in college days, he would challenge his fellows to read any two lines of Shakespeare which he could not locate-play, act, scene. Today the story persists that the kitchen-range in his bachelor apartment is piled high with books...
...respect of age. Mr. Burton, 73, is surpassed by Speaker Gillett, two months Ins senior, by Representative Fuller (Ill.) 74, Representative Dickinson (Mo.) 75, Representative Greene (Mass.) 83, Representative Graham (Pa.) 74, Representative Stedman (N. C.) 83, Representative Sherwood (Ohio...
...recommendations in respect to bringing back exported capital could be made, except that, in the opinion of the Committee, "special terms be offered for subscription to Government [German] loans made in foreign currencies" as an inducement to Germans to reinvest their foreign holdings. This Committee was further of the opinion that, once a permanent financial equilibrium had been established, the return of exported capital would be hastened...
...Swanson, ironically: "The Hague conferences were so effective in preventing war and so effective in producing disarmament that the Senator thinks they should be reconvened, having been so effective in this respect in the past...