Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were beginning to realize that their individual interest coincided with that of larger social groups and were gradually becoming more willing to share their knowledge. Trade associations were proliferating and they were busy in formulating codes of ethics. Business men were enjoying in the United States the esteem and respect paid to a high social class. These are the signs of an emerging profession, and the professional school, at once a result and a cause of the transformation had reason to believe itself a stable institution and to set its standards high...
Next day, after the committee had elected as Chairman, Claudius Hart Huston of Tennessee, businessman-politician whom President Hoover had chosen to prepare the nation for his re-election in 1932, the Committee members trooped to the White House, expressed respect...
Pavlov. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov's ven- erable appearance at Yale's International Psychological Congress was no anticlimax to his visit at Harvard's International Physiological Congress (TIME, Sept. 2). The psychologists showed the old gentleman great respect. Though they knew of him only at second hand (through the Behaviorists), though he spoke in Russian and in highly technical terms on "A Brief Sketch of the Highest Nervous Activity," they applauded him tremendously before and after he spoke. He said that he felt justified in separating certain reflexes, as food, sex, defense, from the rest of nervous activity...
...five minutes, adopted a resolution of respect to the late Senator Tyson of Tennessee, recessed for two days...
...that: i) The arrested Soviet employes charged with propaganda shall be released. 2) The status of joint operation by China and Russia of the Chinese Eastern Railway shall be restored on the basis of the Sino-Russian Treaty of 1924. 3) Soviet employes on the road shall in future respect an injunction against propaganda contained in the treaty. 4) Issues still outstanding shall be settled by a special plenary conference...