Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years of high school with the first two of college and give A.B.S at that point. That proposal is not mine but is put forward by President Hutchins [University of Chicago]. I am strongly opposed to it. I mentioned it in the book only to hold it up to scorn. After severely denouncing the present deplorable conditions in high schools, I said this plan would only add two more years to be conducted under the same conditions...
...There is another recipe," the Reichsbanker told the savings bankers with scorn in his tone. "It is to print bank notes, as many as are needed. Swift price increases would be the result, with wage rises lagging behind. Such 'compulsory saving' we have had before and called it inflation...
...these things provide grounds for those who question whether he has any title to be called "liberal." It is true, however, that none of them was pointed to with scorn until his opinions ceased to please those who now look upon him with disdain...
...road running between Belfast and Waterville and between Belfast and Augusta, I have more than once seen signs reading "Cornfed night crawlers." The first time I saw this sign, I was puzzled and stopped to ask a farmer what it meant. "Worms, and fat ones," he explained with scorn for my ignorance...
Last week the archer's arrows rebounded. Observers could envisage what scorn Charley would have called up if, in 1931, he had caught a Republican in his own shoes, for Charley had just announced that, while retaining his inside Democratic post, he was accepting a $200-a-week contract as publicity "adviser" to the Crosley Radio Corporation. The contract stipulates that he shall not appear before any Government Commission...