Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coming to be of illegitimate origin." Causes for the increase, according to Professor Holmes: "Too much reliance . . . placed upon the efficacy of the contraceptive methods commonly employed. . . . Depression which has checked marriages and resulted in a certain amount of demoralization. . . . A change of sentiment in, regard to the stigma-attached to illegitimate origin...
...deserved recognition of a popular sport. There are strong indications that if you support the movement, the rest of the Ivy League will follow. But all the followers of the sport join to urge you not to compromise, by placing a premium on stars and a stigma on team cooperation. If you cannot see your way clear to make it a full-fledged major, then keep it a minor...
...mortuary business, promptly counteroffered to set up "a clinic for families in need of funeral services somewhat along the lines of medical clinics." "We want," declared the Association's president, John J. Flynn, "to keep the funeral service in such cases free from suspicion of pauper stigma such as might possibly be involved if the cases had to be handled through municipal mortuaries." To "cases" recommended by clergy or social service executives, these morticians would for $85 provide the use of their parlors, personnel and equipment, a standard casket, and a grave. Graves at such a bargain price...
...moral environment. Too many men who lack sufficient moral and mental stability, arrive at college, and because they are unprepared to cope with entirely different conditions, they often are ruthlessly "flunked out." Many of these unfortunates are thus led to believe that they are complete failures, and the stigma that being "flunked out" puts upon them often develops an inferiority complex that they are not justified in feeling. Some of these individuals would have done much better at a trade school, or in a nonacademic career, and neither their time and money nor the college's would have been wasted...
...office gently, his mouth puckered from his last glimpse of the secretary. He went home in a reflective mood and told his parents, in a voice that sounded like Baer speaking to Louis, he thought he would be gosh-darned if he would drive to Washington under the stigma of any accident policy...