Word: scornful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proud Petkiewicz tried to keep ahead of all competitors throughout each race, wasting his strength by sprinting against runners who would be used up a little further on. This was not the cool policy of Nurmi, who measures his pace with a watch and stays in front out of scorn for human competition and because he cannot or does not like to sprint...
...things in mind. They bear importantly on the strained relations between Washington and Moscow, relations which creaked last week when Statesman Stimson politely reminded Russia and China in identic notes of their obligation under the Kellogg Pact not to fight, only to be told by Comrade Litvinov with blazing scorn to mind his business...
...Your policy is anything but heroic. . . ." said Dr. Curtius at last with quiet scorn. Then, rising to his climax he cried: "Ach! Heroic was the life and influence of Dr. Stresemann! He strove, with death in the balance. . . . Deliberately spent his last ounce of strength to advance his principles on a path which he recognized as right! ... It is for the dear Fatherland to wisely follow...
Still another argument against a virtual requirement of this sort is the admirable one brought up in the article above referred to to the effect that men are likely to look with favor upon food, the eating of which is optional and scorn that which they are in any sense forced to eat. It may be absurd, but it is undeniably true as the case of Emmanuel College concretely shows...
...from the standpoint of sensationalism and a longing for notoriety but the serious minded of Socialistic belief will agree that they do far more harm to the cause which the young man has espoused than they can possibly do good. They place upon Socialism the stigma of absurdity and scorn--and the doctrine already has about all it can stagger under of these two impediments to its progress...