Word: stigmas
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...indications Japan and America were gradually drawing together again. But rapprochement would be extremely difficult now. The Japanese have always been sensitive to American criticism. They will have only themselves to blame if the stigma which the exclusion act puts on them remains many years longer in the present situation than it otherwise would...
...there (Class of 1917), Princeton University was called a "country club." This was partly because Princeton is a pleasant countryside community, partly because its undergraduates were supposed to loll about with smooth hair and natty clothes indulging their social instincts. In the decade after the War. the "country club" stigma wore off. This was principally because Princeton could then beat Yale and Harvard at football. There were giants in those great days- "Stan" Keck, "Al" Wittmer, "Hank" Garrity, Don Lourie, Herb Treat, Ed McMillan, "Pink" Baker,- Howell van Gerbig- and Princeton's alumni were happy. But then Princeton began...
...Commission once interested itself in the discovery that International Paper & Power Co. held substantial notes of 13 U. S. dailies (TIME, May 13, 1929 et seq.). Observers wondered about Oilman Doherty's motive. Had he rushed into the Journal-Post in the heat of wrath, unmindful of the stigma attaching to a "kept" newspaper and all that appears in it? Or had he coolly reckoned that by walking in the front door in broad daylight, he would forestall attacks upon his and the paper's virtue? Although it declined to get excited, the New York Times opined that...
...distinction between its A.B. and S.B. degrees by making the arts degree dependent on the field of concentration rather than on knowledge of the ancient languages. Such a change need not imply a denial by the University of the value of studying the classics. It would blot out the stigma of official favoritism which, by arousing an instinctive antagonism, has probably hindered rather than promoted a true appreciation of ancient literature and culture...
...Sterilization is not a punishment but a protection. It carries no stigma or humiliation. The imbecile mind is criminal and you can't breed it out. Beginning of wrong-doing is hereditary and starts in the secretive actions. By preventing reproduction, one of the basic causes can be cured...