Word: esteeming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What is the significance of such a state of affairs? The over-zealous moralist will imply with gusto that the public has a genuine esteem for the perpetration of evil, and that the country is at last on its way to perdition. Such a conclusion must be rejected; the prominence given to the fabulous annals of crime admits of a more significant explanation...
...year was that of Professor Herbert Adolphus Miller, who was dismissed from Ohio State University supposedly because he made an "inflammatory'' speech to disciples of St. Gandhi in Bombay (TIME. June 8). Committee A investigated, found his dismissal unwarranted, told Ohio State it would lose the public esteem of the U. S. There rested the matter last week, save that an Ohio State delegate to the A. A. U. P. meeting last week made vague assurances that something would be done...
...would not embarrass him when he took it before a National Democratic Convention to secure for himself the presidential nomination. George Washington Olvany, a judge of General, Sessions Court, was the man Mr. Smith deemed of sufficiently good repute to lead the "New Tammany" into national potency and esteem. Having served five years as the Hall's leader, while Mr. Smith twice failed to become President, Judge Olvany resigned two years ago (TIME, March 25, 1929), succumbing to ill health and general anti-Smith sentiment in the organization...
...Department of Commerce at Washington (where the opinions of U. S. Ambassadors and Ministers are held in low esteem) officials were especially careful last week to remain impartial in view of Wall Street rumors that the Soviet Government's credit is becoming more than ever overstrained. The Department, which speaks ill of nobody, has said of the Soviet Government recently nothing more alarming than that, while the Soviet unfavorable balance of trade for the first eight months of last year was only $20,000,000, that same unfavorable balance has quintupled this year to some...
...Southern California are out to buy masculine scalps for which they are willing toupee. They are willing to supply the entire funds for the company of a perfect man during the evening. If he rates fifty percent in their estimation, he must perforce pay half. The lower in their esteem the male falls, "the greater share he must foot." In other words, he must toe the mark...