Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notion of what was taking place. To the 39 contestants who had been practicing for weeks, however, and to sportsmen pilots throughout the land, it was enormously important. For years they had wanted some kind of national contest to give their sport a definite status, and to remove the stigma of "sissy pilot" which, some of them felt, was a popular synonym for "sportsman pilot...
...city's current cash requirements. Mayor O'Brien agreed to drop his proposed taxes on savings banks and insurance companies if they would buy $70,000,000 of relief bonds. For the time being at least the first city of the land was saved from the stigma of default but John Patrick O'Brien had had to hock its income...
...previous animadversion re Spanish Trunk labels. It was a joy to behold Harvard's Harried Hawkshaw grouping Newsmen on the front stops of Weld Hall so that F. D. R. Jr. could escape by a back way. There were no interviews, no posed photographs. Even a roommate avoided the stigma of borrowed glory by holding a large cardboard over his face...
...German Government and German people will not. however, under any circumstances, submit to being compelled to affix their signature to anything that would be tantamount to perpetuating Germany's disqualification. ... As a nation under perpetual stigma it also would be difficult for us to remain within the League of Nations...
...Poona, the little human lemur who is India's greatest figure, the Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, slowly sipped a glass of fruit juice. Half an hour later, on scheduled time, he began a one-man war of inaction: a three-week fast to protest India's stigma on Untouchables. The first day he drank a good deal of water, mixed with salt and soda. That night the British Government released him from Yerovda Jail, his home since January 1932. Still sprightly, he stepped into an automobile at the jail entrance, was driven to the villa...