Word: respective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gratification at last week's victory was not tempered by the fact that the rent money will never get nearer Panama than Manhattan since the canal rent is pledged to pay U. S. holders of Panama bonds. President Arias has refused to follow Franklin Roosevelt in one respect: he has been a strict budget-balancer and the rent money will help even if it never reaches home. Lest, however, any U. S. citizen profit by his Government's keeping its word, Panama immediately demanded that its U. S. creditors accept 4% instead of the 6-½% interest promised...
...politics by public school administration in Nebraska and California. In seven years as Chancellor he had done a good, progressive job of building University of Denver up from a "street car college" into a serviceable university. No scholar, prophet or pioneer, he had yet won his colleagues' respect by proving himself an able, diplomatic administrator. Last week he soothingly promised to spend a year looking over the situation in Oregon. "A new chancellor ought not to make, and will not make, any changes in the current policies," said he. "What has been done thus far under the able guidance...
Such caution served only to increase Oregonians' respect for Chancellor Hunter's qualifications. Fervently they hoped that so impartial a referee might quell their dogfight, set the pack once more upon the trail of learning...
...good-natured, thoughtful Negro, Mose had wandered into Mississippi from Louisiana, landed at last on the Rutherford plantation. There he lived contentedly, preaching and farming, until his marriage to a bad Negro woman from town lost him the respect of his neighbors, earned him the enmity of Birney, the plantation overseer. Only because Old Rutherford hated his degenerate sons and his pompous overseer could Mose remain on the plantation after he had driven Birney away from his cabin. But even Rutherford's protection could not save him when Birney sent another Negro to pick a fight with him, then...
...framing of Mose. Yet she finds that many who avoided her during the trial congratulate her for her courage after her defeat, discovers among her neighbors many who feel as she does but who shamefacedly keep silent, fearing public opinion far more than they fear the loss of self-respect or the reproach of a troubled conscience...