Word: dismissiveness
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...Last week the Munsey net estate was appraised by New York State at $19,747,687, of which $17,305,594 went to the Metropolitan. ¶Last week Justice William Harman Black of the New York State Supreme Court refused the motion of defense counsel to dismiss the $500,000 damage suit brought against Sir Joseph Duveen, international art dealer, by Mrs. Harry J. Hahn of Kansas City (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.). Another trial may now be begun upon the motion of either party...
Whether or not Sophocles is responsible for the music is a moot point. Some say yes; some say no; others dismiss the matter with a few well chosen cuss-words. The jokes at all events are Mr.Weller's. They are of a post-Sophoclean vintage, and considerably above the average...
...sentences suffice for Mr. Brock to dismiss the objections of Harvard men to the plan; probably he has not been exposed to these objections for long, and in any event an outsider lacks the close contact of those near to the subject. While this proximity may in some instances blind one to the large significances which are said to be apparent at a distance, it does induce an appreciation of more intimate aspects which appear equally pertinent...
...police and pro nounced guilty by the Minister of the Interior, General Martinez Anido. of "speaking in a public place against the government, the Crown, or the interests of the Nation;" 2) To suppress any society or club upon whose premises such speaking may occur; 3) To dismiss any employe of the State deemed hostile to the government...
...inception of this experiment had as its basis a desire to dismiss as early as possible the requirement of a survey of a large field, with a view toward selecting a small portion of that field for highly specialized work in Senior year. A written examination at the end of Junior year closes the consideration of perhaps five hundred years of history, and leaves the candidate free for leisurely work on a subject of his own choice, untroubled by the spectre of divisionals just before graduation...