Word: forthe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There, this summer, thousands of men, women & children will for the first time try their skill at badminton, most popular lawn game of the year. Practically unknown as an al fresco pastime five years ago, the British-born game of badminton-batting a shuttlecock (or "bird") back & forth over a high net-has become a U. S. vogue as quickly and ubiquitously as women's open-toed shoes...
...Jarrett said: "We adhere to an unwritten regulation of long standing that there shall be excluded from our classrooms all controversial discussions about politics, religion and sociology. Time devoted to such subjects . . . is . . .lost time. . . . We have developed and prospered under the capitalist regime. The men we have sent forth and who have become industrial leaders-have . . . richly endowed us. ... If we are condemned as the last refuge of conservatism, let us glory...
...words as "repression" and "mother fixation" became a part of the common language. Many people still mistakenly think that Freudianism is a doctrine of licence. On the contrary, Freud believes that self-discipline is essential for civilized living, that there is a middle road between unhealthy repression, which bursts forth as neuroses, and free abandonment to sexual pleasures...
...President again advised the Seniors not to forget the past in providing for the future and he asked this question: "Should not even this troubled generation find it a worthy aim to bring forth new creations of the spirit which posterity will not willingly...
...Dickinson first imported from Charlotte two cronies: Dr. Henry Allen Moyer, his personal physician; Emerson R. Boyles, old-line political warhorse who had served under Governor Fitzgerald as his legal adviser. Dr. Moyer's duties include protecting frail, doddery Mr. Dickinson's health, driving with him back & forth to the Governor's Charlotte farm (20 miles from Lansing), where Mr. Dickinson putters in his garden. Dr. Moyer also spends a good deal of time behind a newspaper in the gubernatorial office, occasionally offering his patient nuggets of statesman'y wisdom ("I have a few ideas about...