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Word: shamed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening laboratory hours have already received thorough discussion in the CRIMSON, but as yet virtually no exposition of the difficulties involved has been forthcoming. Presumably there are some reasons for the failure of the authorities to comply with the insistent demands of interested undergraduates, and if there are, no shame should attach to giving them public notice. Concealment, rightly or wrongly, always gives the impression that there is something questionable or arbitrary about the concealed. If only to clear the air of a somewhat sultry haze if not as a courtesy to the men affected, the committees responsible would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOOD HARD FACTS | 5/25/1929 | See Source »

Harvard is justly proud of its Yard and its historic monuments. Must the care of other university property shame the college, in the eyes of the public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DECENT RESPECT | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

...trustees refused to countenance even a temporary exhibition at the Library. So the Fulop patrons, acting anonymously through some attorneys named Saul, shipped the work to a Manhattan gallery, anticipated critical applause which, they hoped, would shame their mulish townsmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Philadelphia's Fulop | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...campaign has finished its allotted run, will shortly be followed by another. Whether this new campaign will continue the Luckies v. Sweets campaign has not been announced, though President George Washington Hill of American Tobacco Co. (originator of the anti-sweet idea) has never exhibited the slightest signs of shame or contrition over his campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Babies' Blood | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...about a friendly nation - our nearest neighbor - describing them as 'bilkers!' An offensive slang term from the gutter! ... I say deliberately that no worse day's work has been done in any Parliament! Nor any greater harm!" Sir Austen seemed actually beside himself with grief and shame. "Bilkers!" his French friends had been called "Bilkers! !" As other Conservatives followed the Foreign Secretary, all flaying Mr. Snowden and all greatly exaggerating his slip, he became positively livid with rage. "I retract not a word! I refuse to apologize!" he shrilled, emphasizing his exclamations with cane thumps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bilking, Tub-Thumping | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

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