Word: respects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese have a pious habit of copying their old masters' paintings and signing the masters' names to their copies -out of respect. That practice makes a muddle of most Chinese art collections...
...most popular painter in the world today is probably Vincent Van Gogh. The public of today, that honors him, is prone to feel superior to his own public of yesterday, that ignored him, and to forget that a better way to judge its taste is in the respect it pays to the original talents of its own day. The 14 Van Gogh masterpieces on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week had all been painted in the last years of his life. Looking back, it was hard to see how anyone could have been blind to them...
...sophomores saw God as "a somewhat arbitrary yet sentimental old man who has a tendency to rap people's knuckles when they don't show him proper respect...
...been our custom in past years to foretell of the future for this joyous event, particularly with respect to the $5000 feature race, the Damon Runyon Memorial. In these troublous times, however, all is flux, and we have seen fit to substitute for our predictions the following document...
...offered sufficient inducements in tenure and chance of advancement so that they will not leave for the West at the first opportunity. The awarding of five-year professorships and Briggs-Copeland Instructorships to several writing teachers in the last two years has been an advance in this respect. Nevertheless, the departure of Stegner for Stanford during the war still leaves the need for a man who can organize the field and make it a workable unit...