Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union itself has earned the genuine respect of the University not so much by what it has said as by what it has actually done. Literary essays on the personal experiences of undergraduates in social work, labor relations, and political life would find many interested readers. A final note: the staff caricaturists and poets should be compelled to exchange functions...
...pink & white billiken with the beak of an owl, eyebrows like cupid's-wings, tongue of a cowhand. He takes Capitol freshmen aside and instructs them philosophically. "Now, Scott," he said, for example, to Senator Lucas of Illinois, "first thing to do is to get other Senators' respect, if you have to fight 'em twice a day. After you get their respect you'll have their confidence. Then first thing you know you'll have their affection...
...more like Dick Stover, heroic figure from the blue mists of Yale legend who was that most extraordinary of all curiosa, the typical Yale man. What position more enviable than living the life of Stover, the life of a good fellow, with evenings at Morry's, with the respect of all Freshmen, with the notoriety of a man who has made a name for himself in campus activities...
...Regency. Trustee Shearn is in almost every physical respect the opposite of shaggy, elephantine Publisher Hearst. He promptly set out to prove himself the opposite, also, in business management. He withdrew the proposed debenture issues, got enough bank credit to stave off the crisis, told Hearst he would have to live on whatever allowance could be spared from, his creditors. He gathered around him a staff of top-flight Hearst executives headed by the Chief's old favorite, Thomas J. White, and consisting of Harry M. Bitner, general manager of newspapers; Richard E. Berlin, publisher of magazines; Joseph...
Main obstacle to Engineer Miller's complete conquest of U. S. radio is the fixed belief in the radio business that the listening public, conditioned to "live" shows, will never learn to respect recorded entertainment. But Engineer Miller is old enough (48) to remember a similar objection 30 years ago to the motion picture...