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...which government seals possess, an allure which he frankly disowns and discourages. But in his last paragraph the writer stresses another reason for entering into the employ of the United States, the knowledge that one is serving his country effectively. This may seem like romantic idealism to those who scoff at the dignity of public office, but it must be the most satisfactory remuneration for such labor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRO PATRIA | 1/27/1932 | See Source »

...talk broadcast from station WEAF Professor E. V. Huntington '95, of the mathematics department, hurling a mild thunderbolt into the camp of those who scoff at the numerical sciences as cold and unaesthetic, extolled the modishness and beauty of figures in the abstract...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Huntington Declares People are Coming to Realize Abstract Beauty in Mathematics--Points Out Value of the Science | 12/6/1930 | See Source »

...falsehoods" can be discovered. Truth (a Macfadden favorite) has at least prevailed. For example if Publisher Macfadden is not its Editor and Publisher, the Graphic is certainly proclaimed as a Macfadden publication and his name appears on the editorial page, big, alone.-ED. Macfadden Praised Sirs: Superior people who scoff at Macfadden campaign to make people respect their bodies give me acute pains. Personally 23 years ago his ideas helped me break an intercollegiate record and that's that. His methods are the only ones which will reach the mob-more power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Premier Duke | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

...then I'll teach myself to scoff...

Author: By D. R. Sr., | Title: THE CRIME | 6/6/1929 | See Source »

Large bodies of the American clergy publish their recurrent opinion that the college men of today are an irreligious lot. College men are indifferent, they say, to the message of the Church; they are unappreciative of the value of religious thought. Not infrequently they scoff at these things, like the bad boys at Elisha; surely the bears will come and eat them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUMENT AND RECEPTACLE | 12/8/1928 | See Source »

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