Word: stigma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more time to his studies, he is confronted by pleading fellow students and friends, coaches, and in some instances, officers of the University, who endeavor to rouse his conscience and sense of 'duty' to Alma Mater. Few young men can resist this pressure, especially in view of the social stigma attached to the 'quitter...
Bland General Chang Chun has very little to do with formulating China's foreign policy. A multi-millionaire many times over, his vast fortune comes from the international opium traffic and a goodly slice of the Chinese national lottery. This has given him no Chinese stigma, for General Chang also controls the Bank...
...contains nothing different from the usual offerings of sound money, economy, and freedom form government interference, his newly-found eloquence and his position as titular head of the party combine to make him the man from whom, until June at least, the Democrats have most to fear. If the stigma of responsibility for the depression did not disqualify him as a candidate, the former president would now be well in the lead in the pre-convention regatta...
Impatient Dr. Ambedkar summoned 10,000 raggle-taggle Untouchables to Nasik near Bombay last autumn, said de liberately: "I had the misfortune of being born with the stigma of Untouchability. But it is not my fault. I will not die a Hindu, for this is in my power. I say to you, abandon Hinduism and adopt any other religion which gives you equality of status and treatment...
English A is one of the most maligned courses in the university. Being compulsory for all who fail to attain a grade of 75% in the English entrance examinations, it has lost none of the stigma attached to any course vitiated by an aura of compulsion. Such a course by no means presents a simple problem to its instructors, for students expecting to be bored by the repetition of grammatical rules bring to the course no interests of their own. In view of these facts, it might be well in justice to English A and its instructors to reconsider...