Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Singular was the U. S. attitude in one respect: on a question of foreign affairs, concerning which it seldom has much feeling, the U. S. public had spontaneously expressed a strong national feeling. President Roosevelt had a mandate from the people which he was bound to translate into foreign policy...
Other leaders in his profession throughout the U. S. respect New York's safety measures and driving tests, which Commissioner Harnett has supervised although he never touches a steering wheel himself. Several States have copied the Harnett system of using two standard colors for license plates, reversing numerals and background each year...
...literature. There is excellent reading in Admiral Mahan, in Grant (although his sentences sometimes march like exhausted infantry), in Sherman. But since the World War, military men have generally confined their writing to official journals, with only Captain Liddell Hart winning both a popular following and the respect of experts. Now wars are again making military commentaries popular. Last week Liddell Hart published Through the Fog of War, contributing little new material, but .including a moving epilogue as fine as anything he has written. People who talk of preventing war are already two years out of date, he says...
...research in electro-magnetic phenomena, which resulted in the discovery of the Hall effect, he won the acknowledgment and deference of the whole scientific world. He held this respect throughout his long life-time by his unceasing laboratory work, continued almost up to the day of his death. And by his honest and conscientious devotion to his teaching, he won the affection of several generations of Harvard students. His interests in general educational methods impelled him to sit on many faculty committees. His responsibility for the introduction of the laboratory procedure into secondary schools earned for him the American Association...
...Bostonian and I attended the Harvard Summer School. Personally I have nothing but the highest respect for Harvard and am sorry that Mr. Hardwick assumed the attitude which created bad feeling here. Hoping that no more such articles will appear, Yours truly, Benjamin Banulis...