Word: esteeming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game has all the spectacular features of American football without any of the drawbacks which make the latter impractical for warm weather. It seems destined to win a place in the esteem of American sport followers. Adoption and cultivation by the athletic authorities would be a progressive step...
...must continue your investigation into the love-making of whales (TIME, March 24) it is unlikely that you will find anything more delicate nor more adequate than the language of Herman Melville in that greatest of all whale stories, Moby Dick: "When overflowing with mutual esteem; they salute one another more hominum...
...Madrid last week the Old Clothes Duke, Don Alfonso de Silva y Campbell. 15th of his line, died, was succeeded by his son Alfonso. Since the 15th Century the family of Hijar have been collecting cast-off Royal garments, esteem this a great and (by association of ideas) holy privilege, guard as their most precious treasure hundreds of old Royal Vigil uniforms...
...education; and the importance of Professor Hughes' contributions to science has been amply testified by wide recognition from experts. Membership in numerous scientific organizations of importance including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science bears evidence to the high esteem in which Professor Hughes was regarded by fellow scientists...
There is every reason to concur in College Humor's high opinion of Mr. Bingham's considerable services to the wholesome development of intercollegiate athletics, as manifested by the presentation to him yesterday of a token of the esteem in which he is apparently held by the editors of that collegiate journal. On the other hand, it is regrettable that there was no way of avoiding so bare face a publicity stunt...