Word: exaltes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Proponents of the Institute of Foreign Affairs at the University of Chicago have been at great pains to exalt its merits at the expense of the Williamstown (Mass.) Institute of Politics...
...however, an ancient phenomenon that the human mind may reason from a false premise to a sound conclusion. This Mr. Russell did when at the end of a speech to the Teaching Union in Manhattan he besought teachers to teach first the love of truth, and not to exalt the merits of any nation or any group at the expense of truth. He denounced the history books now being given to American children which conscientiously describe this country as being altogether without sin, in the beginning, now, and forevermore. Amen...
...hope that God will be pleased to exalt and glorify the virtue of one of the most beloved successors of Saint Peter...
...dwelt more on the rights of the Jews to rule Palestine than on their having no right to rule in England. But I suppose this is temperamentally impossible for Mr. Chesterton. For to speak ill of Lord Reading's services in England is, to put it mildly, paradoxical; to exalt the work of Sir Herbert Samuel in Palestine is simply to state a truth...