Word: contempts
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...learning a distinct cleavage has grown. Science dominates the modern world--science in the narrow sense. The business-man, unquestionably master of our civilization, is a scientist. Persons, things, actions, even philosophies must justify themselves by the standards of the market-place. "Theorist" and "idealist" have become terms of contempt...
Dovotees of the arts have been forced by their comparative weakness into a belligerently defensive attitude. They cultivate a contempt for precision and a horror of practicality. Thus the scientists, seeing artistry in this artificial light, become more firmly satisfied of their own essential correctness. Between the arts and the sciences the gulf widens. Literary men and philosophers recede further into their pleasant vacuum of impracticality; while scientists, penetrating ever deeper into the structure of matter, also lose connection with the deeper problems of life...
...applying the term "greaser" to them you apply it to a large minority, if not to a majority of the population of the State. To these people the term is obnoxious as is "nigger" to a Negro, and with equal reason, since it is an expression of ignorant racial contempt on the part of the self-styled superior Anglo-Americans. . . . The term "greaser" is very seldom used out here. . . . Spanish American people of the Southwest . . . are as friendly and pleasant a people as one could ask for and being mostly very lean, they are far less greasy in appearance than...
...platform in Manhattan one day last week, under glaring spotlights, stood Harry Strauss registering easy contempt. His eyes were slits in a sallow, freshly-shaved face. His nails were well manicured, his thick, black hair sleekly pomaded. Over a blue suit pressed razor- smooth, with blue shirt and tie to match, he wore a Chesterfield overcoat with vel vet collar. His pearl-grey fedora rode jauntily above a sneering smile...
Having refused to accept the censorship of Senator Huey P. Long, the entire staff of the Louisiana State "Reveille," with the exception of one person, has been suspended from the university for insubordination and contempt of authority...