Word: scornful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...misconception has provoked the spirited derision or the silent scorn of those famaliar with the facts. Acknowledging that the use of alcoholic stimulants had has a certain vogue at Harvard, they deny that it has been greater there than at other universities; and they contend that no one can tell whether its influence has been for good or evil. Alcohol has damaged some young men in college, no doubt,--though it would probably have damaged them just the same if they had never gone to college. That it has been an aid to others without doing them any harm...
...present day attempt to regulate students' clothes would meet with laughter and scorn for the force of public opinion is great enough to keep a sober and appropriate dress, but it is a matter of pride that the Seniors have continued, voluntarily, a custom putting all men on absolutely the same basis, by adopting a universal distinctive garb for the graduating class...
...quantity; and in the field of political satire, such as the two series of Bigelow Papers, he had a theme and a method precisely suited to his temperament. No American has approached Lowell's success in this difficult genre: the swift transitions from rural Yankee humor to splendid scorn of evil and to noblest idealism reveal the full powers of one of our most gifted...
...endowment. Both are usually defeated. The result is such a scale of salaries that Normal School graduates find it more profitable to serve, let us say as hotel waiters, and full-fledged college professors have to content themselves with stipends that the Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers would treat with scorn...
...German music from orchestra programs. He writes: "It is Germany who has made war upon the humanities and upon the human spirit. It is no time to urge the finer things of life while Germany pursues her international debauch of murder, outrage and plunder. Nothing but the lasting scorn of human society can sting that arrogant nation into a penitence that will make safe and good neighbors of them. For anyone, therefore, to demand polite consideration and financial support of anything German would be in ill accord with the rage of battle which his now stirring this nation...