Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pounds of critical flour actually saved for each of four weeks last term. The strictly Lowell House complaint about food quality makes a hollow sound when the House Committee claims that discontent was "traceable directly to the forced food savings program." The House had long been notorious in that respect...
...Every line of scrutiny, every angle from which the union official's job may be examined leads to a very real and sympathetic respect for its paradoxical complexities. Indeed, so bristling are the difficulties that they make it almost naive to expect any quick achievement of the maturity that all would agree is indispensable...
...existence as a whole was hardly dreary. Edith and Osbert performed musical marvels on a pianola, while Sacheverell, too young to pump, "listened to us both with a flattering air of respect and, even of rapture." A well-meaning aunt gave lectures on the social impossibility of otherwise well-meaning people who pronounced girl as gurl. There were ancestral ghosts in Tudor or Jacobean chambers, and the spectacle of daily prayers, attended by a long line of footmen and housemaids, "seemingly well-drilled as a corps de ballet." Big-eyed, the little Sitwells took everything in. Their world was almost...
...finish Strand was yards in front, unhurried, and two-tenths of a second off Les MacMitchell's meet record of 3:51.4. He might not run the four-minute mile at the San Antonio A.A.U. championships this month, but U.S. tracksters already regarded him with brooding respect. Hägg's rabbit would be hard to beat...
Many signs now point to the Church's swing back. At weddings and funerals Chinese Catholics may bow to tablets bearing the names of ancestors-if the priest is sure the gesture indicates only respect and is not tinged with Confucian worship...