Word: cherish
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...live for the sake of living or because we in some modest way attempt to justify our existence? It appears that without the driving impulse of certain ideals and aims our lives would be drab and worthless. Individuals will fight to the bitter end for the ideals they cherish and nations will continue to do so by any means they see fit, by war if necessary. If Nazi Germany finds her ideals threatened by unsympathetic neighbors she will not hesitate to defend them and her great Further will see that she does...
...baby left on Franklin Roosevelt's Albany doorstep by Alfred Emanuel Smith, and which he has come to cherish, is the projected hydro-electric power development on the St. Lawrence in New York State. The President prodded the matter along last week by urging the Senate to pass the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Deep Waterway Treaty with Canada, necessary preliminary step before any dam can be built...
Replied the Chancellor to the President: "We cherish as a special grace of fate that in you as the supreme patron of our will and actions we have a witness who can and inevitably must convince the whole world of the sincerity of our intentions...
...Brain-Trusty Raymond Moley. Speaking in Manhattan Professor Moley declared that the success of the President's recovery program demands the prop of selectively higher tariffs. "This has made it necessary," said Professor Moley, "to defer and perhaps to blast the hopes of old-fashioned Democrats who cherish the belief that social justice can only come through more international trade...
...first essay in this volume is on Locke, "the father of modern psychology," whom Mr. Santayana puts in his place in the history of thought. The second essay is on F. H. Bradley, the sturdy but mistaken moralist, for whom Mr. Santayana, unlike Mr. T. S. Eliot, does not cherish an excessively warm regard. There is, as the third essay, a highly suggestive consideration of the theory of relativity and the new physics. The suspicion is advanced that "even Einstein is an imperfect relativist, and retains Euclidean space and absolute time at the bottom of his calculation, and recovers them...