Word: distinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most candidates for the Presidency move through three distinct phases before the national conventions meet to nominate. Phase No. 1: a short, vague, extremely modest public letter about general principles. Phase No. 2 : another public letter, longer, more specific, much less I modest about his purposes if nominated I and elected. Phase No. 3: a ringing keynote speech which starts marching-clubs and a hunt for convention delegates. Last week appeared a public letter from Newton Diehl Baker, Wartime Secretary of War, that had all the earmarks of Phase...
Every year on the President's birthday thousands of Finns march merrily past his yellow Palace in Helsingfors roaring, "Maamme! Maamme! Our Land! Our Land!" To buy the President a "birthday present" money was raised this year by nation-wide subscription-on the distinct understanding that the President will donate his present to help fight tuberculosis (Finns being especially susceptible to this disease). Last week came the 70th birthday of a National Hero elected last February: President Pehr Evind Svinhufvud whom 4,000,000 Finns call Ukko Pekka ("Old Man Pehr''). Outside the little yellow Palace with...
...been said of a whole people, that when he ceases to possess "individuality," his progress ends. Mass education makes it all the more possible for this precious quality to be lost. Mr. Harkness's gift to Exeter, on the other hand, has put emphasis on treating the students as distinct individuals, or to quote the principal of the Horace Mann School, "as a good physician would treat their physical growth and welfare...
Depression. "We find fundamental national gains even amid depression. We have witnessed a remarkable development of the sense of cooperation. There has been a notable absence of public disorders and industrial conflict. . . . The country is richer in physical property than ever before. . . . There has been a distinct gain in public health. Business depressions are but transitory. The Nation has emerged from each of them with increased strength and virility...
Lunching jointly with the Dartmouth Club of San Francisco and listening to the broadcast of the Game from Soldiers Field, it was a distinct pleasure and thrill to hear Stanford music played by the Harvard Band and Stanford yells from the student body. It was beyond a doubt inspirational to our football team, battling far from home, and I know they too were appreciative of the support you rendered...