Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called New Plan was designed to alleviate this emphasis on the examination. Its failure in this respect is evident. The fact that in most courses there are a few preparing for examinations in June is sufficient to neutralize its beneficial tendencies. Nevertheless, one feature of the New Plan does offer a valuable suggestion for a reorganization of the entrance requirements. The comprehensive examination in English, which all applicants under this scheme are compelled to take, has proved, according to recent research, to be the most reliable indication of success at College...
...Murphy & Co.'s President Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, Wartime lieutenant colonel, snorted: "A fantasy! . . . and I don't believe there is a word of truth in it with respect to Mr. McGuire...
Intensely practical in the most important respect, Mexico's Six-Year Plan includes this pledge: "Place at the Army's disposal such training, such preparation, such necessary armaments for it to warrant, in case of necessity, those exalted concepts and that profound faith which our country has vested in our armed institution...
...According to Professor Maurice Halperin of the University of Oklahoma who testily adds: "The new landed peasant is better off than the peon in only one respect: he can starve without working, but the peon has to work while he starves." In expropriating land from private estates the Government hands the irate landlord bonds proportionate to the taxes he actually paid. Since most landlords connived with the tax-gatherers and paid less than they should, they are now neatly hoist by their own tax-dodging...
...been a loveless and ignoble marriage. Since it is nothing of the sort at the conclusion of The Painted Veil, the picture, despite the fact that Censor Joseph Breen gave it Certificate of Approval No. 395, can be considered an advertisement for adultery as a matrimonial cureall. In this respect it follows Somerset Maugham's shallow novel, from which it was adapted. In other respects, except that it lacks the rapid-fire beginning in which the two lovers see the doorknob turn and wonder whether they have been discovered, The Painted Veil improves on its original...