Word: confessedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secondary position intellectually as compared with Wisconsin. Is that just one more American Intellectual injustice, or has this matter of foreign population, supposed to work in favor of Iowa, been counted as against it? Wisconsin is much more German, much more Scandinavian, than Iowa--and that seems to confess the German stock stronger than the Yankee. And now Minnesota, with its strong Scandinavian content. That State has already a Norwegian college--an American center of a purely Norwegian culture. No doubt we shall have some Norwegian "fellows" at Harvard, in the new sense of the word as we already have...
...risk of being found sentimental, I dare confess that I think that teaching is a mission. We are not here merely to create other puny scholars in our own image, but to send out into life men who shall, in the words of Pericles, be most completely and most gracefully self-sufficient in the face of the most varied circumstances. I know that I am not speaking for myself alone when I say that I had rather send forth one such man than be the lauded agent in dragging the poor bones of the dead from the oblivion to which...
...average seems to be somewhere around 70," said Questioner Stout. ''I personally must confess that I got a terrible minus score, but since applying myself diligently I have succeeded in showing an improvement of 4.06% over the first time...
...Thee, of whom we are fragments and from whom all virtue flows. . . . Our President, do Thou keep him in the circle of divine love and care. With Thy presence, Lord, do Thou bless our Speaker, the Members, the officers, and the employees of this Congress, and may all hearts confess that from Thee cometh all our benefits. O spread the mantle of happiness and good health upon all hearthstones. Almighty God, let these days be a prelude of the triumph that is to come. Merciful Father, come with us, and marvels shall come to our Nation reborn. Let self-sacrifice...
...Sprague has explained his opinion as follows: "It is conceivable, that an enlargement of the already ample monetary base might in some fashion or another bring about the expansion and more effective distribution of credit and currency, but for myself I confess an entire inability to discover any definite influence that such an increase could exert...