Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Best Customers." In nearly all past years the U. S. has been Canada's best customer, and vice versa. Why should she buy English motor cars when Detroit is so near? Surely the U. S., where there is also unemployment, is the ideal and adjacent place in which to fulfill Canada's manufacturing needs. Unfortunately for the U. S. things are not so simple as that...
...168th Infantry) as its chaplain and later was commissioned a Major. For bravery under fire Father Duffy received the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, the Croix de Guerre with Palm; he was made a member of the Legion of Honor, cited for valor. He was called "the ideal army chaplain and the ideal parish priest" by Patrick Cardinal Hayes. Said Father Duffy: "If anybody sticks a pin into me, he'll find that I'm very American, very Irish and very Catholic, but if he'll leave me alone. I'm just plain human...
...quickly had his handicap raised to six goals, barely missed being No. 1 on the U. S. team that beat England in 1930. An expert golfer, he won the Byers Cup at Aiken a year ago. Short (5 ft. 2 in.), light (118 lb.), he has an ideal build for a jockey: slim legs, good muscles in arms & shoulders. His hands are strong, unusually clever. Next winter he plans to ride one of his own horses in the Grand National at Aintree, where neither a U. S.-bred horse nor a U. S. amateur jockey has ever finished first...
...launching of the House Plan in the short space of 29 months was attended with error. The administration did not, like Yale, reserve a part of the gift money for endowment. It built too many expensive single rooms; in pursuance of the democratic ideal it wisely made fifth floor rooms as attractive as those below, but unfortunately not a few more expensive lower rooms consequently went untenanted. The University scarcely asked too much for what it offered; it simply launched the Plan on a scale of living which taxed the undergraduate pocketbook too severely. Fortunately, however, it has belatedly reduced...
...wife, his military honor. He suffers the martyrdom without which Catherine predicted nothing valuable for Ireland or for himself could be won. Outcast, Catherine accompanies him. Like her carrier pigeons, that fly always in one direction through the sky's abyss, the two are oriented by a single ideal, head instinctively toward its consummation, as the pigeons head towards home...