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...dime on the dollar" of her 1933 agreement to pay the U. S. some $11,000.000,000 over 62 years. Since Germany's Reparations debt to the Allies was scaled down, provisionally, at Lausanne at 1? on the $1 Britons were shocked by U. S. scorn of a dime...
...beat down a small but dogged opposition which filibustered against his bill for the better part of the three weeks it was before the Senate. He had to keep his temper and his tongue when abused by windy petti-foggers for whose intelligence he had only scorn and contempt. A man of smaller calibre might have given up the struggle- but not "Pluck" Glass. For his reward he had a bill in which he boasted "not an 'i' had been dotted nor 't' crossed by its opponents" without his consent...
...elicited scorn: "Cleverest pseudo-scientific hoax yet perpetrated" (American Engineering Council). "Intellectual mah jong . . . Greenwich Village economics" (University of Chicago...
...until well after dark, as the sun sets early in the northern country." Stalin's letter sharply denied all-night parleying, denied the claim (which Farmer Campbell did make) that Stalin clasped his guest's hand in both his own, finally held up to scorn this statement in the Campbell book: "[Stalin] unhesitatingly admitted, with disarming frankness, that under Trotsky there had been an attempt [by Russia] to spread Communism throughout the world. He said that was the primary cause of the break between himself and Trotsky. That Trotsky believed in universal Communism while he wanted to confine...
...first, with questions of religion, it now embraces matters of philosophy, science, polities, or whatever else is to hand. "The University," says President Butler, "can only live in the atmosphere of Lehrfreiheit"; but to this he appends a limitation: the exercise of Lehrfreiheit can not include bitter ridicule or scorn for the opinions of others: It must be curtailed "cut of respect for the high place and dignity of an university...