Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...tempore speaking was cultivated by all classes of students. Towards the end of the nineteenth century all this changed very suddenly. The man who a few years before would have been the intellectual idol of his fellows came to be regarded with indifference, if not with suspicion. Now it is no longer success in oratory, but success in sport, that is over-idolized. There is no doubt that we should be a great deal better off if public attention were more largely fixed on the intellectual prizes and less upon the athletic ones...
...kind. His life had been that of a gentleman of leisure, spent in reading, travel, correspondence, and only occasionally writing for publication. With little technical training he undertook to teach a subject novel to the University, in which as yet there was no department; a subject, too, regarded with suspicion by influential sections of the community. Under such untoward circumstances--yes, by very means of them--he soon won honor for himself and his subject, a unique position of dignity among his colleagues and deep gratitude from a group of pupils who at the time of his resignation must have...
...claimed that the first would be changed, as soon as a sufficient need had arisen, by the same party that had instituted it. To force all depositors to pay tithes was an obvious injustice. As for the third contention, any such legislation as Mr. Bryan desired showed a suspicion and doubt on the part of the people, of the integrity of the United States courts. Such a suspicion would be of the greatest injury to our prosperity, for it would take away the dignity of our highest judicial body, and it would attach three fundamental powers of the courts given...
...fall of the wicked and to "eat exceedingly." Overdo, a justice of the peace, appropriately disguised as a fool, comes to the fair on the scent for "enormities" which he immediately begins to discover and try to correct; but he ends by getting himself well beaten on the suspicion of having cut Cokes's purse...
...welcome accorded to the Review, two motives may be expected to exert their influence. The first is the interest excited by suspicion. We have heard of the Presbyterian Elder who usually slept during the sermon when his own minister was the preacher, but who, when a stranger occupied the pulpit, remained wide awake and keenly alert. He gave as his reason for this change of attitude, his assurance of the soundness of his minister, and his conviction that when a stranger came, he needed watching. There are many dormant minds to whom this Review with its new and unknown character...