Word: respective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant did well not to become involved during the muddy battle itself, particularly under the stipulations of Governor La Follette's invitation. His reply, emphasizing the difference between a professor and a president, pointing significantly to the essential problem of respect and independence, struck the heart of the whole problem. As President Conant said, "The question before the educational world and the people of your state is whether they have confidence in the Board of Regents...
Upon the Supreme bench of the U. S. sits no man more learned in the law than the senior Associate Justice, bald Willis Van Devanter. Though liberal colleagues may disagree violently with his conservative opinions, they listen with profound respect in conference when, out of the experience of his full quarter-century on the Court, he expounds history, procedure, precedents. As elementary to him as the formula for water is to a master chemist, is the judicial principle that ignorance of the law is no excuse...
...last autumn fined in Federal Court for failing to have his duck stamp on his hunting license (TIME, Nov. 9). But when Chaplain Phillips revealed the identity of his ignorant companion, Warden King tipped his hat. "I'll take your word for it, sir," said he, and respect fully rowed away...
...Secretary of the Treasury, after conferring with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, announces that he proposes, whenever it is deemed advisable in the public interest to do so, to take appropriate action with respect to new additional acquisitions or releases of gold by the Treasury Department...
...Fort Belvedere, intending to sign them there. A tendency for such papers to become scattered about and even blow out into the garden was a feature of the last reign, and new King George last week was a very great comfort to the British Cabinet in this respect. When His Majesty is asked to sit down and sign a paper by his Principal Private Secretary, the King first observes whether it is the paper it is supposed to be, duly forwarded for royal signature by the proper British authorities, and then His Majesty signs it with his right hand, having...