Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...importance. Properly conceived, it can have two important results. For the brilliant man, it should be a priceless goal, a sharp spur to original thought. To the average student, it should give answer to oft repeated condemnations of advanced study as useless research, and should inspire a new respect for great scholarship...
Deep in an armchair, with a cocktail at my elbow, I relished TIME'S report on Technocracy. . . . Aside from being informative, the article was TIME-worthy in another respect. Perhaps it was the amiable cocktail, but when I came to the word "obfuscated." I smiled. And when, in the same paragraph, I reached "rodomontade," I chuckled aloud...
...West-who, though one of the Sackvilles of Knole Castle, is a novelist of parts, her influence therefore subversive of public-school tradition. Through the regular mill of Oxford, crammer's school and Foreign Office, Harold Nicolson took his obedient but observant way. He came to have more respect for poets than for potentates. Born in Teheran, Persia and brought up in whatever foreign posts his family happened to be, he served his country in France, Spain, Turkey, Geneva. Persia, Germany. In 1929, unable to contain himself any longer, he resigned, joined forces with the "Bloomsbury Group" (John Maynard...
...CRIMSON commends Princeton for the stand taken by those in charge of Princeton athletic policies, as authentically stated in this morning's paper. For there is reflected in that stand a certain praiseworthy independence of spirit at all times commendable to them who truly respect the dignity of venerable and honorable institutions of American education...
...Harvard Athletic Association in this instance apparently more than maladroit, then, not alone is the stand commendable, it is reasonable, if, however, it traces more directly to the unpleasant episodes of the last week-end, the CRIMSON, while admiring Princeton's maintenance of a decent and convincing self, respect, feels that the decision to break off relations with Harvard, is too abrupt. Nothing can do more to hurt amateur athletics in general and football in particular than the fact that two ancient and great American Universities cannot enjoy honorable and pleasant athletic relations. If Harvard, through her Athletic Association...