Word: respective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubt if we ever changed anybody's opinion about anything . . . Perhaps people modify or intensify or otherwise alter their opinions by something someone else has said or written, but basically opinions are like fingerprints: they never change, and no two are precisely alike in every respect. The height of art is to create in people's minds an involuntary and unconscious alteration of belief. You can't change an opinion by attacking the opinion or the holder thereof, or by praising and ballyhooing an opposite opinion. Opinions are changed from within, never from without...
...released a note of protest to the Nationalist government. It denounced the shelling as "unjustifiable and contrary to the law and practice of nations," and "requested" that the Chinese government issue orders that such incidents did not recur. If face meant some show of consistency, firmness and healthy self-respect, it was an Oriental concept that might be difficult to achieve, but was long overdue in U.S. policy in Asia...
...there will be "a rapid end to all the liberal arts and sciences. In such a world A is busily engaged in helping B to train C to help A-to help him toward what goal? Only to make him more useful to B and C; useful in what respect? To make A, B, and C in general more helpful to one another; helpful in doing and being what? This remains unanswered...
...these and other technical reasons, scientists heard the news about Russian science with respect and foreboding. If the U.S.S.R. is producing plutonium, it has come a long way in the four years of its sped-up atomic-bomb program...
...courtroom scenes are enough to make a law student turn green with nausea. At one point Mrs. Bonner, in an attempt to prove that women are equal to men in every respect, brings in a circus woman who does back flips and lifts Mr. Bonner...