Word: respectful
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From 1941 to 1945 he held down the regular right end berth and within that time gained respect throughout the league as one of the finest defensive ends in the business...
Simonsen was heard with respect. He is no inexperienced theorist, but a self-made man, a pretty rare article in Brazil. Child of a British-born Santos bank manager and a Brazilian-Scottish mother, he started out at 21 as a civil engineer on the old Southern Brazil Railway. At 58 he is one of the wealthiest men in the country. He has been president or director of a dozen companies, now heads Ceramica São Caetano, the largest ceramic (tile, pipe) plant in South America, which employs 1,600 workers...
...warning by the New York Times: "This is the classic first step by which dictatorship is imposed upon a people. By its very nature, dictatorship moves inexorably to stifle the voice of a free press and to destroy the sources of trustworthy information. . . . In following in this respect the pattern endorsed by Stalin and Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, Señor Perón has embarked on a course of infinite danger to his country...
...shown by Union Oil Co. of California, which reported profits of $13,749,940 for the first nine months (compared with $6,624,352 in the same period last year). Union's president since 1938, Reese Taylor, 48, an ex-WPBer as blunt as he is big, gained respect on the West Coast for pulling California's Consolidated Steel Corp. out of the red in the mid-'30s. He thinks business need not be apologetic about profits. Said he: "If the company is to provide an incentive to shareholders to continue their investment and at the same...
...best long kicks were without doubt made by Princeton, but they failed in always having a man on the spot to follow up the advantage; in which latter respect Harvard was "right there...