Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...larger proportion of husband's income spent on families; 3) marital relations improved; 4) more sanitary homes; 5) "mental health" better in homes; 6) less children's delinquency; 7) fewer cases of malnutrition among children; 8) liquor less accessible to children; 9) more drinking by young people; 10) less respect for law. "It cannot be too strongly insisted in evaluating such results that they are likely to reflect the bias of the person making the replies. On the other hand, it will be noted in the above tabulation that the order of favorable and unfavorable re- plies was reversed...
...ventures went well. Mack's condescension cheered Benoni and won him people's respect again. Now they called him "Hartvigsen." Even Rosa spoke him kindly when he was invited to Mack's Christmas party...
After all, the two were not inconsistent. Professor SMITH, with his vigorous advocacy of freedom for the individual would doubtless be urgent in counseling respect for the law that is. What he deplores, as do all who hold precious liberty of initiative, struggle and achievement, is the existence of such laws as restrain the individual without giving commensurate social value. Before legislation in social control is enacted it should be inquired whether moral instruction may not in the long run be more effective in achieving the end sought without peril to character. Moreover, practical achievement must be taken into...
...that he attempted to effect a settlement in his conferences with them. Said he: "It is not only right but necessary that the Governor of Pennsylvania should keep himself informed;" and also: "Because of the number of States affected the anthracite coal strike is a national question, and I respect the right of the President of the United States to speak the first word...
...contrast as a feat of news-gathering was the publication of income tax payments by the newspapers. The extreme example of efficiency in this respect was probably attained by The New York Times, At 9.30 one morning income tax collectors turned over to the press, books full of names, addresses, amounts, unarranged, unclassified. At each office in New York City, the Times had a battery of stenographers, each group supervised by a reporter. All New York City tax payments of $500 or more were copied. In addition the telegraph wires brought in all tax payments of more than...