Word: decently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...luncheon of the National Conference on Planning, he sat red-faced through a speech by Architect Walter H. Thomas, who declared: "Most of our American cities are a flop, so far as being decent places in which to live and work. They are encumbered with the two bad twins of blight and flight and an attitude of 'who cares?' Philadelphia is afflicted with all three. . . . Instead of cleaning out our slums we apparently are waiting for them to disintegrate...
...donation to a deserving charity. . . . You are not being asked to fight for Britain with your factories and your skill just because you love the English. For all I know, you don't. You are really being asked to fight, as we are fighting in Australia, for the decent, suffering, ordinary people. . . . The cry going out for material is a tremendous challenge to the industrial genius of the United States. All the world knows you can do it if you put your mind to it. The question is, how quickly can you get going...
...Harvard rooter gets up and cheers when a Yale man gets kicked in the groin. But that's exactly the attitude war breeds. I'm convinced that we in the United States have a great opportunity to take some of the stigma away from the war by doing something decent at the same time...
...usually manage to "take things in my stride," but your cover picture of Hitler this week moves me to speak. TIME is very definitely my favorite magazine. However, with so many fine, decent and worth-while individuals to choose from, couldn't you find a more worthy subject...
...athletic committee will be set up, consisting of the captains of the major and minor sports. Their function will include the running of the various social activities of the Club, investigation into athletic affairs which may be necessary from time to time, ensuring that the working athlete has a decent job and is getting three square meals a day, and acting more or less as a Student Council for sports...