Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proclaimed in the announcement of courses. "To multiply subjects is to multiply rivalries. But a shrewd Bismarck of a professor who has a nice expansive subject such as sociology, history, or philosophy can soon be trespassing on every field in the whole curriculum before his colleagues--or his students--suspect what he is doing...
Though we suspect the new column called "Sketches" of being Editorials transposed, we are none the less delighted. Certainly such reminiscences as these are memorable...
...French do not yet feel that they can safely dispense with compulsory service. They distrust Germany's intentions of carrying out the terms of the Versailles Treaty; they feel that England has deserted them on the Polish question and has tricked them in the Near East; and they suspect Italy of too much friendliness for the Bolsheviki. Consequently until some general disarmament plan, such as the one proposed in the League convenant shall function, the government dares not discontinue the system of compulsory service,-they system which has cursed Europe and played no small part in making possible the World...
...despise Harding; I despise Cox and the Democratic party; I loathe the socialist and farmer-labor and prohibitionist platforms; I don't know and don't want to know anything about the "socialist labor" and "single tax" parties. And I strongly suspect that most "respectable" people feel just about as I do. If they disagree it is only in degree of contempt. Why then should those of us who are not professionally obliged to keep up the dismal pretense of enthusiasm about the wretched business--why should we waste time talking or thinking about the election, and why should...
This I admit is quite beside the point. The real question is whether Mr. Palmer has any right to apply the words "unfit" and "unfair" to the judges who were selected. Surely their prominence in the community would not lead us to suspect that he is right. All three of the gentlemen in question are well known, and would seem to command the respect and confidence of their fellow citizens. Their disqualifications for such a position seem to have occurred only to Mr. Palmer. His first specification is that they are all New Englanders. This is not quite true literally...