Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...active command of the force was one of these unhorsed horsemen: peppery, profane little Major General Charles L. Scott, a onetime polo player and chief of the old cavalry's Remount Service. Adna Chaffee, having done more than any other U. S. soldier to compel respect for the tank, was ill in Boston. Pneumonia had sapped him, left him no better than a good fighter's chance to dirty his face again...
...Conscription takes boys-and I think, gentlemen, this is one of the most important points I have-conscription takes boys shortly out of high school, boys who all their lives have been taught to respect women . . . and places them in situations where the absence of normal contact with girls induces a mass lust which has always characterized Army units...
...Tuesday's CRIMSON Professor Morison addressed a frank and reasonable appeal to the students. Men of understanding, he said, support war measures only after soul-searching deliberation and because they know the alternative is worse. He asked the students, therefore, to respect the sanity and sincerity of those with whom they disagee. Professor Morison's admirable letter was probably occasioned by the severely critical editorial in last Friday's CRIMSON on the meeting for Militant Aid to Britain...
...many honest virtues: a nicely formed story, characters drawn with delicate authority, sharp, evocative vignettes of Virginia living & landscape. The whole work has the well-made, healthful, sober clarity of a Dutch interior. And like many unexceptionable people who inspire neither more nor less than respect, Sapphira is not too dull to be pleasant reading...
Stages on Life's Way is not only one of Kierkegaard's best books* but luckily his most interesting to ordinary, unmystical readers. And because his musings on the erotic are so lucid, irreligious mankind will respect this essentially religious thinker. Judges Translator Lowrie, "The Stages is clearly a work of genius...