Word: exalt
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...remained for Will Rose. editor of the Cambridge Springs "Enterprise News" to exalt this state of affairs into even higher realms. In the current issue of "Scribner's he recounts the benefits which have accrued to himself and other publishers who have divorced partisanship from their columns. Advertising is booming; circulation has increased. Irate subscribers are no longer constrained to toss his paper across the room because it harrows their political sensibilities. The new policy aims to offend no one--and there is peace...
...drive by moonlight. It had given him a twinge but he had understood. Mattocks was a scrawny painter, his fingers jaundiced with cigarettes, his character by egoistic indulgence. Brenda, the sensitive, the humanitarian, had seen he had genius and got one of her "moments". The kiss was to exalt him above drugs and drink to set him to work. It was in no way a betrayal of her husband and children...
...creeds to any great extent. There is something much more fundamental in human nature which leads men to strive for the good, the beautiful, and the true. All codes have sprung from this human longing, and are but imperfect formulations of it. It is a great error to exalt a code, which is a result, not a cause of morality...
...reproach are hurled at the "authorities" for these and other defects it is well to remember that much of what is worst at Harvard, as in all other colleges, is caused by the materialistic philosophy of the undergraduates themselves. The student body itself tends to crush genius and exalt conformity...
...keeping with his real qualities I shall make no effort to exalt him, for he does not need it. . . About this man there is something elemental. . . . He has moral fibre. . . . With him there is no compromise. . . Frugality is a part of his being. . . To him, life is work. . . In the largest sense of the word he is a patient man. . . No one can throw him into a panic, for he sees life steadily and sees it whole. . . Has he a sense of humor? Emphatically...