Word: respective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great lot of advice, disregards most of it. Sometimes his spasmodic working habits bewilder his subordinates. To ease their minds he has instructed a special studio watchman to keep a lookout for his car and swiftly warn the workers of its approach. Thus laggards will not lose their self-respect by having the boss catch them in a poker game...
...general trend of American sympathy has so far been drawn toward Major General Butler and numerous petitions have been sent to President Hoover demanding clemency. Nevertheless, there are undoubtedly formalities of international ethics which the Navy Department is forced to respect, and the court martial may be purely a matter of naval routine. Whatever the circumstances, the best one can wish for is a speedy termination of an affair, which will add nothing to the cause of under-standing among nations in a world where indiscreet statements are often the cause of uncalled for ill-feeling...
...Without question the more progressive cities and States will be prepared for any volume of traffic which may come to them during the new year, or indeed in the years that follow," says Dr. McClintock. "It is safe to say that we are over the hump with respect to the traffic problem, and that there can no longer be any doubt of the capacity of cities and States to achieve progressive improvement in street and highway safety and congestion. It will demand constant work but the elements to assure success are available...
...idle to attempt a summary in one sentence or in one paragraph of our reasons, frequently expressed in our columns during the past year, for the conviction that extra-curricular activities are at present on the wane. Individualism, lack of interest in all class elections, a decline of respect for a Varsity "P", thinning competitions for the Princetonian and Tiger, rough sledding for the Intime, the failing popularity of baseball, smaller squads in football, apathy in regard to "student government," the tremendous rise of informal sports like squash, golf, and tennis, consternation of advisory athletic committees about...
...person throws out his arms as he is about to fall, his brain is working. The muscles involved are striped muscles. (A steak is a slice of striped muscle.) When his stomach churns, smooth muscle is working. (Sausage casing is smooth muscle.) The heart is peculiar in this respect. Its muscle is half way between the striped and smooth kinds. It is connected by the vegetative nervous system with only smooth-muscled organs. These all function automatically. The will, that is the brain, cannot boss them. (However, some intense individuals learn how to control their own heart beats by hard...