Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permanently injured, his settlement check is HIS LAST RAILROAD CHECK. Generally he knows no other work. It is fair that these men or their dependents receive every dollar to which they are entitled. If there were not a few high grade firms ready to take the stigma of so-called "ambulance chasing" (a term incidentally fostered by corporations most affected by their ability), it would be a sad day for the workingmen of America...
...that intelligent and stimulating plays of assured value would hold some interest for people. Whether or not these productions are to continue depends entirely on the public. For a long time the movies have been justly criticized as an illegitimate form of art. It is possible to remove this stigma by producing just such productions as are now being shown at the Repertory, but it is only possible to produce them if a large and intelligent audience is assured...
...Mexican people feel instinctively a repulsion from Protestant propaganda. The names Protestant, Methodist, Presbyterian fall on Mexicans as a species of stigma because of the marked character of the North American dominion all these Protestants bring to Mexico. Hence the popular opinion that Protestantism is one of the elements upon which a powerful neighboring nation counts to effect slowly but surely domination, hegemony or realization of its imperialism in our land...
...measure of punishment and condemnation until the students as a community once more see things in the same light as themselves. How they will attain, this enlightenment remains to be discovered. ... A man who is convicted by the dean's office of cheating and leaves college under the stigma of that hideous word takes on an aspect of moral guilt which his companions ... do not of their own accord inflict. . . . Certainly a man's honor in the world is bitterly lost...
...action of the American Unitarian Association in adopting a resolution to promote the birth control movement deserves nothing but commendation. The finger of stigma pointed by modernists at petrified Orthodexy has for once received sufficient proof to the contrary. Any technical discussion of the pros and cons regarding birth control properly belongs to the physician. The qualification to be introduced is only that it should be extended to the general practitioner as well as the highly specialized medicinal student of research...