Word: cherishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrote Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn for adults exclusively, & it always distresses me when I find that boys & girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience & to this day I cherish an unappeasable bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again this side of the grave. Ask that young lady...
...critics of the various New Deal measures it is easy to cherish a warm sympathy with Chang of the Central park...
...Boston Herald puts it in an editorial quoted elsewhere in full in this issue. "A university as large as Harvard, with graduates scattered throughout the world and attached to all manner of political religions, and economic causes, cannot draw strict lines as to whom it will and will not cherish," on any basis of dogma...
...university as large as Harvard, with graduates scattered throughout the world and attached to all manner of political, religious, and economic causes, cannot draw strict lines as to whom it will and will not cherish. About the only test it can apply is whether the man was sincere in his convictions, was honest and decent in his personal relationships, and was moved by a desire to help his followemen...
...week, orating to the directors of the Soviet Union's largest metal plants in Moscow. "We are no longer a country of wood. We are a country of metal!" cried the man whose name means Steel. "The time has come to admit that the most important things to cherish are people who have learned mechanical technique...