Word: respected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three years for a player to acquire the ability to handle his stick with facility, and to catch and throw the ball with speed and assurance. Teams clever enough to keep the ball in their possession, have a big advantage over players who are inferior in this respect. In fact, it has been so certain in the past that a team would drop the ball every few minutes of play, that until very recently, the coaches of club teams instructed their men to pursue a waiting game, expecting to profit by the errors of the opposing team...
...your April 12 issue, p. 14, you tell about an "infuscate U. S. sailor." Now is that a sneer or not? It seems a funny way to express that the sailor was drunk. I think you ought to respect the U. S. Navy and not use a sneer. "Tight," or "squiffed," or "boiled" or maybe "groggy" would have meant the same and not sounded so sneering...
...people have penetrated by intuition to the true man; unquestionably love and respect their King. Said a writer in the Paris Matin recently: "Haakon's wife adores him?but who does...
Interference which in New York State is in the form of an optional hint all too easily turns to iron-clad regulation as in the Tennessee imbroglio And even the mild allowance of half an hour a week from school-time is scarcely compatible with a healthy public self-respect. State encouragement of theology is an introversion of initiative implying a lack of confidence in the national fiber--a doubt striking at the foundation of morality...
...bitter price of being an example. Yale, then, is an example, and has shown that the wet majority of the country will not retreat before this legislation. This being the case, a compromise is both desirable and necessary if young America is to grow up with proper respect for law." Yale News, April...