Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher of India: "Reaching Berlin on what I said might be my last European tour (for I am 65), I deprecated the notion that there, is in the Orient a 'Yellow Peril,' save in the sense that Christian civilizations in the West, crumbling now, might commit suicide, while the Orient will survive always...
...Bingham was approached on this subject last spring, just after his appointment as Athletic Director. Although in sympathy with the proposed change in football policy, he felt unwilling to commit the University to any such step until he and his regime had weathered one season...
...unavoidable. Live now in the fear of that tribunal, --not an abject fear, because independence is an indispensable quality in the honorable man. There is an admirable phrase in the Declaration of Independence, a document which it was the good fashion for the boys of my time to commit to memory. I doubt if that fashion still obtains. Some of our public action looks as if it did not. "When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers...
...fire and Joe Easter, the fire hanging back just far enough to make an impressive setting for some sterling heroics by Joe when he catches up. Joe has been cleaned out by tricky Indians and now offers 1) to save his good friend Prescott from foolish Alverna; 2) to commit suicide. After a protracted love-feast, the two men ship Alverna back to Minneapolis, and splendid Joe then pretends to get drunk so that Prescott will see what a mistake it would be to take him to New York and introduce him to cultured friends...
...predilection of the Japanese for this vigorous act was well shown last week, when a new Japanese cinema drama was released in which 47 of the characters commit hara-kiri to the delight of movie fans...