Word: ego
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would deflate many an "educated" man's ego to see how helpless he would be in a job he had hitherto considered beneath his dignity and calling. And definition of the age is one thing a college education does not at ways include. --The Daily Californian...
...Voto tells his first class that those present are expected to get B's, otherwise they wouldn't have been chosen for the course. The C which rolls around at November may, therefore, dishearten the hopeful author and considerably deflate his ego. He will discover, however, that Mr. De Voto's bark is worse than his bite. Despite the wilting comments which decorate his themes the student will find his marks gradually improving, as he learns to purify his technique and eliminate errors of syntax which would, to quote an average comment, "disgrace a student in English...
...Lowes, presumably, will be President Conant's alter ego in all matters involving the drawing up of budgets and the allocation of the University's funds. President Lowell was his own financial adviser in these matters, while the routine work of disposition was left to the Comptroller. All this work will be--indeed, already has been--taken over by Mr. Lowes. The wisdom of splitting up the educational and financial aspects of the presidency, while leaving the former paramount, can not be questioned. The qualifications of a great educator and a successful financial executive are so diverse that it would...
...formal resolution Congress last spring asked that question of Joseph Bartlett Eastman, radically brilliant Interstate Commerce Commissioner whom President Roosevelt made Federal Coordinator of Transportation and his alter ego on all rail matters. Last week Coordinator Eastman answered the question in a 350-page report, the core of which was: "Theoretically and logically public ownership and operation meet the known ills of the present situation better than any other remedy." But: "I am not now prepared to recommend . . . public ownership and operation . . . for the principal reason that the country is not now financially in a condition to stand the strain...
...suigeneris, that the world outside is chaos, that even in the inner world has little meaning. None of his own crises can ever be interpreted in the light of the common experience of men; each is single, alone, terrifying. In Mr. George Moore this constant dominance of the ego became only faintly irritating, but in Mr. Murry, mere humourless than Moore, and faced with disturbances of a more fundamental kind, it hovers on the embankment between tragedy and pathos...