Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great popular necessity. He saw the phonograph come up from a weird and uncanny curiosity to a general household necessity. He saw the moving picture force its way from a crazy notion to the greatest of all public amusements. And he has seen the wireless telegraph beat down public scorn and take its place as a general means of communication. And now he sees the amateur wireless experimenter and the wireless telephone edging their way slowly but surely-ahead, and he wonders what might be the results five years hence...
...hard to bear up under such scorn. Far be it from us to enter into an argument about historical methods; but such a naive view of Harvard and its professoriat, having little to do with the review of history books, falls within the range of editorial comment. We cannot help wondering if the "New Republic" is expressing the opinion of unbiased thinkers in the country today. One would not suspect to find so conventional an attitude in so Promethean a periodical. The reviewer has apparently excavated the pre-historic, absent-minded professor from the joke column and cartoon page...
...competition with one's fellows in the same job which is hard for us here to realize. It is choosing the best and the most distinctive training that Oxford can offer, and such thorough grounding in a particular field broadly conceived, as none of us can afford to scorn. With energy and ambition one can take "schools"--the final honor examinations--at the end of two years, and devote the remaining year to research...
...insane, is not happy with his wife. But Her Philistines grates upon his sensitive soul; yet he is still strongly attracted by her in a physical way. But Dagmar, his wife, has come to the point where she can no longer endure her husband's whims and his scorn for worldly comforts. So she turns to Meyers Sophus, a prosperous, concerted; furniture dealer, and in him finds a welcome contrast to the vagaries of her talented husband. Peter, suspecting the worst but not daring to learn it, suffers all the tortures of the jealous husband, until, in a dramatic scene...
...respectable majority are "uneducated" and "unthinking". I even go with him in his implied belief that the word of a thinker is less likely to be taken as law by "near Americans" if he is incarcerated than if he is left at large. Admirable as Mr. Mason's scorn for those who, through the pardon of Gene Debs, might be encouraged to obstruct the prosecution of future wars; edifying is his stand in regard to the freeing of William Haywood...