Word: dare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America has already given us that perfection of methods of production. . . . Now we have reached a point where we dare hope . . . that American genius may be able to devise a definite formula which will allow this world to establish a more lasting and satisfactory balance between manufacturer and consumer. . . . For this last problem, as I see it, is the most important practical issue that faces the people of the year 1930." So last fortnight wrote Albert Einstein in a statement for the U. S. Press...
Wesley once encountered Beau Nash, professional dandy, who was foolish enough to start an argument. Nash, objecting to Wesley's sermons, admitted he had never heard one, but said he judged them by common report. Said Wesley: "Sir, I dare not judge of you by common report...
...than his business (the Sanitarium) and his benefactions. Brother Will Keith made his business (Kellogg Co.) more famed than himself. The public knows practically nothing about him. Employes of the Kellogg Company have stern orders against exploiting him. Servants of the Kellogg Inn at Battle Creek, his legal residence, dare not talk. Dr. Carrie S. Staines Kellogg, 63, his second wife, who practices at Battle Creek, minds her own patients, not his business. Nor is there much small talk about him at Pomona, Calif., where he is breeding the largest registered herd of Arabian horses in the U. S. Hence...
...Windsor, N. C., Percy Hevander, reputed never to have taken a dare, was slapping a young girl. McWebb Williams, reputed always to have kept his word, said: "If you slap that girl again, I will shoot you." Both preserved their integrity. Percy Hevander took no dare, slapped her again. McWebb Williams kept his word, shot him dead...
...have you got one real man in England-I care not what you call him: autocrat, democrat, aristocrat-who can rule and dare not lie? I hope my old friend Ramsay MacDonald will at least prove the man to rule and that he will not dare to lie to his own conscience, to his own dead wife, to his living country, to his own party, and that you British delegates of all parties will help him to make history...