Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continuing the Latin requirement for the A.B. degree in the face of the general sentiment against it, Harvard is preserving a piece of academic dead wood which serves as a considerable nuisance to those who run afoul of it. However unreasonable the distinction between the two degrees, it often indicates to outsiders a certain inferiority in the S.B. degree which causes embarrassment to its holder. At the same time, the Science degree has lost all significance as a recognition of scientific work, going indiscriminately to the concentrator in chemistry and the dilettante whose effort to meet the distribution requirement netted...
...world. He runs with natural ability a job not of his own choosing, which your Brain Trust would bungle in a day. Stretch every American's brain far enough to grasp that the monarchy is a different thing from the man who is King, and that British royalist sentiment has little to do with the blah-haw-haw which selected Englishmen, usually pabliticians, spill through the cigar smoke at Hands-Across-the-Sea dinners...
...when you are rude to the present occupant of the Throne, you touch the kind old daddy, not of the aristocracy, but of millions of impoverished, overtaxed Englishmen in the middle classes who see in the King's outlook on life one of the few remaining pieces of sentiment they can still permit themselves...
...manipulate money for the good of the U. S. is not entirely a question of public sentiment. It is also a matter for expert judgment. So, ever since the Administration began tinkering the dollar, there has been argument whether 1) only a few wild-cat economists approved the experiment, 2) only a few old fogy economists opposed it. To find out how expert opinion stood, the inflationist Committee for the Nation polled economists but declined to publish the results, alleging that economic opinion was "divided." So the Economists' National Committee on Monetary Policy, composed of 90 leading economists including...
...emergence of Starhemberg as the dominant personal force in Austrian politics. His arrival in a preeminent position has obviously been carefully timed, for it was delayed until Dollfuss had been forced to shoulder much of the odium attaching to the suppression of Vienna Socialism and after foreign sentiment had been aroused against the excesses of the Nazis...