Word: taint
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...Oslo. After years of desperate loneliness he chums up with a man who turns out to be Rognaas, the only man ever to take his side. At the height of their intense friendship Rognaas confesses that he was one of the bandits; his story absolves Berger of any taint of cowardice. But Berger cannot tell on his friend, even to justify himself to the whole world. Instead, he hits on a plan to justify himself to Lydersen, his chief antagonist, who has by now become a postmaster. On the evening when post office receipts are reckoned up, Berger calls...
...heat of the patriotic enthusiasm prevalent during 1917 and 1918 many institutions were swept into taking away from great scientists and thinkers the honors given them. A taint of Germanism was sufficient to brand a great man as an enemy to be despised. A slight leaning towards peace was sufficient to label a man a pacifist or a traitor to democracy...
...general Electric company, the Dupont company, and others can afford to give a scientist every possible comfort without even threatening him with a special task. He is not bothered with lectures and tutoring but works to his heart's content in the most theoretical fields. This is a taint of commercialism non the less: it is also a form of advertising on the part of the company, and depletes the university faculties. In this class come institutes endowed by millionaires for special advanced study, valuable as they may be to science, as they rarely hand knowledge directly to a younger...
...some of the mechanical details ordinarily associated with elementary courses, and to develop more literary interpretation and appreciation. By exchanging the old composition book for a new and more satisfactory volume, and by altering the outside reading system. It was hoped to remove from French 2 much of the taint which all required courses seem to possess...
...large an enterprise. Yet they are regular; they are insured by the persistent interest in football. As long as the surplus is not being used to provide athletic facilities or free blanket admissions to students, they should be used in the promotion of sports as free from professional taint as possible. During the next decade Harvard would do well to consider the possibility of erecting an indoor rink on its own premises...