Word: respectfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House of Representatives undoubtedly gets through its business with commendable speed, although often we come to believe that it is accomplished through log rolling and the docile follow-the-leader voting of men who respect the machine which elected them. In the Senate again, business is undoubtedly oftentimes outrageously delayed, but we often suspect that the delays are caused by independent-thinking Senators who refuse to vote till they have aired the entire question...
...respect to W. R. Slaughter; very few expert field shots lead birds but the gun is aimed directly at the object in flight, firing as the barrel is moving with the bird...
...promoting the social mingling of foreign and American students, the International Council is attempting to sound out the attitude of students at Harvard in respect to the possible future establishment of an International House here. It is hoped that a center for social activities of foreign students can thus be realized. A step in this direction was made when the Phillips Brooks House Cabinet turned over to the International Council the use of the Shepard Memorial room in the Phillips Brooks House...
...Order; without it tomorrow's metropolises will be but romantic jumbles as are contemporary London, New York and all Continental cities. According to him, city planners must use architectural physic and surgery. Obstacles will be man's persistent following of the least resistance line, his respect for the past. As the straight line is best for the ideal city, the curved line being too rococco and impractical in an age of metal construction, the city of the future must be planned rectangularly. His projected city has a concentrated business district in the centre of vast areas of suburban...
...come from without-who knows? I can remember . . . that I sat with my father in our home in a little town in England and heard him read in the newspaper about the fall of Richmond. . . . One of the great troubles with our young people today is their lack of respect for authority and law. . . . They want to kiss their way through life...