Word: contempts
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...coarse expectoration of its speech" as freely upon collegians and journals at Cambridge as upon the Nassavians. Who is to give assurances for Harvard? So far as we know, her graduates are friendly to Princeton. The rivalries of college newspapers at Cambridge are as notorious as the general contempt for most of them. Still, this attack of muckeritis is momentous The Princetonian darkly intimates that the Big Three may be disrupted. That would be intolerable...
Said Premier Lykke, last week: "The Government will at once introduce a bill abolishing prohibition. We take it for granted that the Storting (Parliament) will adopt the measure. Enforcement of prohibition law has proved impossible and has led to contempt for and disregard of all laws as well as to extensive smuggling and incitement to drink...
...Babe Ruth swung his bat in a smooth high arc and began to run while the ball he had hit rode smoothly over the bleachers and dropped into Grand Avenue outside the park. It was Ruth's afternoon. The day before he had proclaimed in colorful language his contempt for St. Louis; now he must make good or be derided. Furthermore an eleven-year-old boy dying of blood poisoning in Essex Fields, N. J., had sent him a telegram asking for a home run. The appeal was exactly the sort of thing to appeal to Ruth...
...present session of the American Federation of Labor is a visible manifestation of the change of the spirit of the working man. The fiery contempt for all things smacking of privilege, the desire to tear down the established order of things, so notable in the resolutions of past Conventions, have all subsided and in their place has arisen a tendency toward, thoughtful study of labor and national problems. Labor is becoming civilized...
...only two Manhattan physicians openly opposed Dr. Field's claims. They were Dr. David Bryson Delavan, a director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, and Dr. Robert Tuttle Morris, emeritus professor of Surgery of the Post-Graduate Medical School. Lesser men talked with confidentially candid contempt. But only under promise that their names be not mentioned. They feared that their ethical confreres would charge them with publicity seeking...