Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This willingness on the part of the Communists to discard what was originally their fundamental ideal shows that Russia has passed from a state in which the revolution was considered only in so far as it was capable of universal application to one in which the revolution has been identified and merged with the traditional policy of Russia, and has assumed the attributes of Russian nationalism. Here there is an exact analogy to the development of France in the last decade of the eighteenth century, when the Republic slowly deserted its universalist notions for strictly nationalist ones. The decline...
...their efforts to be first to kiss his sunken cheeks and the close of Presiding Judge Panegyrakis' decision refusing extradition was lost in pandemonium. "I am very disappointed," said rueful Hunter Harness. "I am sorry for young Mr. Harness," cried generous Quarry Insull. "These Greek judges are ideal! I am more than satisfied. I shall stay here the rest of my life. Greece is a small but great country!" Back in Athens' Hotel Grande Bretagne, popular Guest Insull did not repeat the champagne celebration he staged last year when the U. S. lost its first Greek court fight...
...South is not realized by the Northerner. Nor is it generally comprehended this side the Mason-Dixon line that state institutions in the South, however liberal, cannot, with the present temper of feeling against the negro, dare to open their gates to him. Regardless of what constitutes ideal justice, any attempt at mixing the races in so crucial a concern as education would be certain to arouse a resentment both bitter and dangerous. Even if the colored student were tolerated by the whites, his plight would be made unbearable by social barriers erected around him. His theoretical right to learn...
...method of interest analysis outlined in our 1931 report we show men how to relate past interests to possible future interests. This we believe will, in most cases, actually hitch their abilities to an occupation appropriate to them. But in any case enthusiasm will often overcome the absence of ideal abilities." Augustus L. Putnam...
What the leaders really mean, and should say, for it is indictment enough, is that the economy of depression shows forth the hollowness of the ideal known as free competition. In prosperous times, the efficient farmer is willing to reap his reward in a greater profit margin, and will tolerate the selfgratulatory gabble of his inferiors so long as his own sales volume is unimpaired. But when price becomes a sharp issue, he is wont to maintain his volume at their expense, which is what is meant by free competition. Immediately the hinds call treason, puncture the tires...