Word: esteeming
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...simian impulse to make trouble, to substitute hatred and ill-feeling for common interest, cooperation and mutual esteem between the two great English-speaking nations, reacts not against Britain, British dominions or British interests, but against the United States itself, whose authority is flouted and whose reputation for the maintenance of the common decencies of national conduct are thus set at naught. The truth of this must inevitably dawn upon our neighbors sooner-or later. From the Montreal Star...
...same time it is noticeable that the Irish cause has not been very much raised in the public esteem by the events of the last few months. The stories of cattle-running outrage, and murder in Ireland may not all be true some of them, as the Irish leaders claim, may have been inspired by sources hostile to Ireland's freedom. But it is an ancient proverb that where there is such a prodigious cloud of smoke, there is sure to be a certain amount of fire. The reports from Ireland do not seem to indicate that the Irish people...
...factor in all their teams. They played and rowed with a smile, and they lost fighting hard, but still with a hearty congratulation and a promise for next year. Their stay here taught us an appreciation of Harvard and Harvard men and they left here with the highest esteem of the entire regiment. Not once did they question any decision of the officials; such a difference from Saturday...
...believe, this initial donation is but the first step in a drive for richer and more profitable results in education, it will tend toward the eventual raising of the whole standard of American education,' and of the esteem in which. American schoolmasters and instructors are held. Certainly thanks are due for this generous appropriation to Mr. John D. Rockefeller and the General Educational Board of which he is chairman, from all college men who are interested in the broad subject of American culture...
...question. Even its enforcement has already been tried and disapproved of by the people generally, such a repeal would create a dangerous rift in the popular respect for organic law. The Constitution of the United States, our national rock of strength, would sink in popular esteem to the comparatively fallible level of certain state constitutions and ordinary statutory laws. Besides this it would cost endless time and discussion on the part of Congress, State Legislatures, and responsible individuals, at a time when all energies should be bent toward reconstruction, and a resumption of the ways of peace...