Word: esteem
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...subtle and terrible persecutions in all history." But the blood of martyrs is the seed of faith. Though the Nazis have jailed over 10,000 pastors, priests and monks for long or short periods, an unknown number have been beaten to death, the churches stand far higher in German esteem today than they did in the easygoing '20s. Church congregations have grown remarkably. Sales of the Bible have shot up from 830,000 copies in 1933 to 1,225,000 in 1939, topping Mein Kampf by about...
...Charles Portal and Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh ("Stuffy") Dowding, head of the fighter command, man most responsible for the R. A. F.'s brilliant defenses against the Luftwaffe. That the R. A. F. chose the expert in offense rather than defense indicated that Britain's self-esteem had taken a great rise...
...President that he was going to be divorced. "The Graphic in its first year would have considered this news not fit to print." Laments McKelway: "Gossip-writing is at present like a spirochete in the body of journalism. . . . Newspapers . . . have never been held in less esteem by their readers or exercised less influence on the political and ethical thought of the times...
...Tokyo press labored mightily to raise Puppet Wang in Japanese esteem. Unlike most other peoples, the Japanese like their statesmen boozy. Several Japanese Premiers have been notoriously copious tosspots. It was therefore a great build-up of Chinese Puppet Wang in the eyes of Japanese when the Tokyo Hochi Shimbun (News) quoted Director Yakichiro Suma of the Japanese Foreign Office Information Service apropos his personal acquaintance with Wang Ching-wei some dozen years ago in Peiping...
...Smuts, his Government riding the crest of popular indignation, recalled that The Netherlands once gave sanctuary to beaten President Kruger of the Transvaal Republic, advised Queen Wilhelmina last week that if Her Majesty or any members of the Dutch Royal Family should come to South Africa the Dominion would "esteem this the greatest honor and privilege in return for the kindness extended to President Kruger...