Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...succumb under pressure to the revival of a custom it had wisely disposed of. The attitude of undergraduates ion the last few years towards football cannot scathingly be termed indifferent; it has simply been a sane attitude which marked Harvard as being years ahead of other colleges in this respect...
...your reference to Honorable John N. Garner wherein you mention the Farley expedition was for the purpose to rediscover '"little old hawk-beaked Vice President Garner." This statement in itself to fair-minded people stamps you as thoroughly lacking in the proper attitude of mind or even the respect a wayfaring man pays to the Vice President of the U. S. Mr. Garner is a highly respectable, patriotic gentleman, having served his country 30 years, brilliantly, successfully and courageously, at Washington. A good old fashioned "elm club" should be the proper rebuke for a contemptible remark of this kind...
...weakness in government credit. So it is earnestly desired by the administration that such support for the market for government securities as can be set up at this time shall be given. The Federal Reserve System might continue to buy government securities or some assurance may be given with respect to the inflationary powers which Congress bestowed on the executive as to the issuance of $3,000,000,000 of greenbacks...
...disappeared -sparse and sickly survivors of a decade-long sunspot cycle whose heyday was five years ago. The telescope men were looking for first signs of a new cycle-vigorous black splotches in the neighborhood of 30° north and south latitude, with magnetic polarities reversed in respect to the spots of the dying cycle. They had been looking for months, might have looked for months more (for sunspot changes cannot be forecast like eclipses) had not Dr. Seth Barnes Nicholson of Mt. Wilson Observatory reported two heralds of the sunspot upturn, slyly adding that he saw a first...
...exercises at the football game next Saturday was the presentation of gifts to Harvard and West Point by Governor Ely. As arrangements had not yet been made with the Governor and the other dignitaries who were to have participated in the program, no difficulty will be experienced in this respect. As explained by Mr. Nichols, yesterday's decision was not caused by the desire to eliminate the observance of Armistice Day, but merely to commemorate the end of the war in a more dignified manner. It was therefore decided to do so at the morning services in Appleton Chapel...