Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Obviously the disciples of the Newtonian philosophy had not ceased to worship. . . having denatured God, they deified nature." "The eighteenth century Philosophers, like the medieval scholastics, held fast to a revealed body of knowledge. . ." "The ideas (Dderot's) are essentially Christian .!): for the worship of God, Diderot has substituted respect for posterity; for the hopes of immortality in heaven, the hope of living in the memory of future generations." In insisting on the faith of the notoriously skeptical Philosophers and in ringing the changes on the religious character of their humanitarian philosophy, Professor Becker, has helped to correct a popular...
...week the student council of Northwestern University reported unfavorably on a proposal to embrace the honor system. Midwestern students are not yet ready for it, said Councilman Hollis Peck, of Sioux Falls, S. Dak. "They're a motley crew, without the faintest notion of what honor is in respect to school work. At the University of Virginia the student body follows the honor system successfully, for Virginians are born gentlemen. Princeton and other eastern schools also have students of integrity who respect the honor system...
...this estimate of Hemingway's personal import, there arise the old questions as to just how multi importance is to be attached a literary work as indication of the mental processes of a class. But even admitting the significance of the author of "A Farewell to Arms" in this respect, there is a further doubt. If the members of the present college generation confess themselves truly pictured by Hemingway, and, as Fadiman says, "as vitally maimed as the hero of The Sun Also Rise," they confess themselves beaten, not by the war, with which they had no direct contact...
...many news publications. It makes the readers' picture more accurate to know whether a man struts, or gallops, or limps or hobbles. What's the difference? RALPH P. STODDARD Cleveland, Ohio Please continue your use of truthfully descriptive words about those whom you present in TIME. . . . I respect President-elect Roosevelt the more because he has not allowed physical difficulties to daunt him. . . . ELEANOR MARE Chicago, Ill. Sirs: Suppose a few of the 400,000 do wish you to be more orthodox - orthodox-i.e, colorless - in your write ups. Don't do it. In the case...
...Roosevelt plans to adopt in respect to Latin America the 'big stick' policy which made Theodore Roosevelt well hated below the Rio Grande...