Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English course, "which is designed to teach the effective handling of the English language as a means of expression and communication. We would regard this as fourth and fifth form stuff, and indeed it is; but it is necessary because of the defects of American secondary education in this respect...
...persecuted, misunderstood genius, denied the recognition due to one of the world's greatest living sculptors. Last week an accolade came to Epstein which should convince him that the world now acknowledges him both as an artist and as a public figure of standing and respect. In a New Year's Honors List which also included a barony for longtime Cabinet Minister Leslie Hore-Belisha and knighthoods for 84-year-old Comedian George Robey and ex-Foreign Office News Chief William Ridsdale. Queen Elizabeth II made Epstein a Knight Commander Order of the British Empire. From...
...achievement in the U.S. Only policy-making positions need be held by partisans. A lawyer who prosecutes under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (act this was the case for which the judicial ruling was made) is not making policy. But the new ruling, applied by future Presidents with less respect for the civil service, could reach down to oust the lowliest government typist, on the grounds that in her own small way her partisan attachments were hampering her work...
...scientist's work. Do we not, on occasion, refer to a 'beautiful theory' and an 'elegant experiment'? A great experiment seems to us, somehow, something which could not have been done differently . . . Taking away something or adding something only detracts from it. In this respect, a beautiful experiment can surely be classed with a great work...
...this respect," he said, "McCarthyism has been comparable with the usual anti-enemy and spy-hunt emotion which arises in any country that is seriously...