Word: respective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Corbett was asked about the position of his own former calling, the boxing game, at present. "It is better off now than it ever has been. Not only with respect to the gate receipts, but fights are on the gate receipts, but fight are on the level, despite many statements to the contrary...
...issued: "Hand kissing and hat tipping have been abandoned, for hygienic reasons; and the males and females of the U. S. S. R. are on a par. It now remains to eradicate kissing as a means of salutation between our males, who have displayed notable unprogressiveness in this respect." At the village of Pnieva one nicknamed "Pump" on account of his fondness for kissing persons of both sexes created a mild sensation by defying the new feminist organization "with a doggerel song," the accompaniment for which was furnished by one Gurok, village harmonica player...
...Attorney General (then Harlan F. Stone, now Associate Justice of the Supreme Court) declared in a letter to the Trade Commission: "It is apparent, therefore, that during the time covered by your report the Aluminum Co. of America violated several provisions of the decree; that with respect to some of the practices complained of they were so frequent and long continued that a fair inference is that the company either was indifferent to the provisions of the decree or knowingly intended that its provisions should be disregarded with a view to suppressing competition in the aluminum industry." But he pointed...
...position of this sort requires a man who commands the respect of undergraduates, alumni, and Faculty; a man who knows athletics from the stand point of the competitor, the coach, and the administrator; a man who is enough of a friend of athletics to be the first to declare war upon commercialism and wrongful emphasis in intercollegiate sport; a man who is willing to devote himself wholeheartedly to Harvard for the building of the complete man. The selection of Mr. Bingham, or a man of similar qualifications, combining to an unusual degree all these abilities, would insure the success...
...theory that a man may become educated merely through passive exposure to education. The university has always avoided the rigid requirements set in the past by American colleges upon regular classroom attendance, but now a still larger measure of freedom is to be granted in Cambridge in this respect. Hereafter, not only honors men but all seniors in good standing may make even more liberal use of their own discretion in determining how many lectures or recitations they will attend, without being subjected to any disciplinary penalty unless they make gross abuse of the right...