Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Landis left Washington in 1937, after authoring the Securities Act and serving two years as SEC chairman, Franklin Roosevelt wrote that he was leaving behind him "a great respect and appreciation for the scholar in government." Landis went back to Harvard as dean of its law school, returned to Washington in 1942 to run the Office of Civilian Defense, stayed on to do wartime and postwar economic chores in the Middle East...
With sports out of the question, Gregory landed a part as Starbuck in a college production of Moby Dick. In this first try at acting he was so terrible that self-respect forced him to try again. In the next plays, he was better. By the time he played Matt in the drama club's Anna Christie, he knew what he wanted. He could not even wait five days to pick up his diploma, he was in such a hurry to reach Broadway...
...Caught neck-deep among Hollywood's peculiar blessings and obligations, Peck likes being regarded as a good actor. But he takes little pleasure in his fame, and none, apparently, in the standing, prestige or power he might have. He admits to some laziness, but adds, with proper self-respect: "I can be conscientious as hell under pressure...
...minute one-celled animal which multiplies both non-sexually (by simple division) and by a kind of primitive pairing. Several years ago, Dr. Sonneborn discovered that special strains of paramecia give off a poison (paramecin) that kills normal paramecia. The "killers" differ from the "sensitives" in only one known respect: the amount of a substance called "kappa" which they contain...
Mount Tremblant is a name to make over-the-border enthusiasts glow with respect. But nationalists term it a 4000 foot chair lift haul to the top of trails no better than those to be found at Stowe or Bromley...