Word: tainted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whit, seemingly, how many members choose to donate anything. Lowell House capitalizes on its dances, relying on these profits for its funds, though the criticism is prevalent that such a method tends to cast too commercial a pallor over something that should be free from the money taint. Adams swings to the other extreme in demanding the presentation of a card, obtainable at a set price, for the use of the library and common room. In short, these houses offer dissimilar and often impractical ways and means for levying the annual tribute...
...government that has done everything in its power to destroy the ideals of education for which Harvard has battled so long. Furthermore, Hanfstaengl's award was a travelling fellowship for study in Germany, while Mr. Dubinsky's gift comes free of all strings, for general college funds. Thus no taint of subscribing to ideals contrary to the free educational system can attach to Princeton if it accepts the gift...
...slight cut or bruise may start a fatal hemorrhage, as slight cuts and bruises in an automobile accident did to .his late hemophilic brother (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934). They inherited their blood ailment from their mother, a granddaughter of England's queen Victoria, who doubtless acquired her taint from her German ancestors...
Thus on the legal face of things British, French, Italian and Belgian troops had every "right" to start marching on Berlin with no taint of "aggression" after the Council voted last week. Yet it was never clearer that those who talk loudest about "collective security" are the ones most unwilling to fight...
Since no Jewish or Marxist taint whatever was discovered in the condemned man, who is "pure German," the trial closed with an explanatory declaration by the Nazi prosecutor that "jointly responsible with the accused for his deeds is Liberalism...