Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...expect to act as counsellors at summer camps, or to play baseball under conditions where there may be a suspicion that some of the players are receiving money or an equivalent form of remuneration should first consult the chairman of the Athletic Committee, Professor R. B. Merriman, or the Graduate Treasurer, F. W. Moore...
...conspicuous and continued absence of recommended books from the reference shelves of Widener is a genuine cause for annoyance among earnest students in the University. When these books cannot be otherwise accounted for by attendants in the Reading Room, the suspicion that they have been taken by persons' who, having themselves immediate use for them, do not recognize the rights of others to similar use, appears to be not unfounded. The books placed on the reference shelves are for general circulation, and it need hardly be pointed out that persons removing, for private use, books many of which are essential...
...average man, the man who feels himself oppressed by the inequalities due to economic conditions, has long labored under the taint of an original sin, not even the members of the bar themselves will deny. The unfortunate belief that all lawyers are to be looked upon with suspicion is too deeply rooted in the mind of the ignorant and ill informed man to be dispelled by mere argument. You may argue with this individual and he will listen to you with a humorous twinkle in his eye realizing that he cannot answer the contentions of those who espouse the cause...
...only too sad a fact to be denied that a college diploma and law school certificate will not insure the legal profession against crooks. Hence the raising of educational standards would not dispell the universal suspicion of the profession. But there is one thing that will always appeal to the man who does not stop to reason. Offer to give him something for nothing and you will at once gain his confidence. It is in this way that free legal aid is going to serve the double purpose of purging the profession of its taint, and at the same time...
...phrase which is subtly returning to a too frequent use among students in the University, it is the two-word phrase "getting by". The current vocabulary lost this unfortunate expression during the win-the-war days. Then, anyone who employed it would have been looked upon with well-founded suspicion that he was shirking his duty. The best only was expected, and the best was given unhesitatingly by all. But as President Lowell warned the Freshmen earlier in the year, "the great moral effort which this war has required will surely be followed by a period of moral lassitude...