Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...illustrate these points is by summing up the essential features of the average Yale graduate. The Yale man is a sociable person, willing to "drink one up with the boys:" he is a conformist, with a superficial knowledge of cultural attainments, but with no real interest in them. His ideal of success can be expressed directly by his salary and by the number of committees of which he is a member. These are, of course, generalizations honored almost as much in the breach as in the observance, but as far as possible they do, I believe, demonstrate the effect...
...Cried "More power to you. Miss Perkins! God bless you! Long may you live, Miss Perkins!" when the Secretary of Labor told the convention that NRA was "not ideal, but it has made honest progress toward an ideal...
...Sohrab adjured the couple: "When God gives you sweet and lovely children, exert yourselves in their education that they may become imperishable flowers in the divine rose garden, nightingales in the ideal paradise, servants of the world of humanity and fruits of the Tree of Life...
...unsophisticated state of our finances, the supposition is always made, if it is not consciously formulated, that a slack period is an ideal time in which to force liquidation on borrowers. There has been a failure to distinguish between the character of debt which should be permanent, such debt which a popcorn vendor runs up at the local hofbrau. Debts on such enterprises as the Middle West Utilities, whether they are notes or bonds, should be freed from the liquidating impulse of the business cycle. If it be objected that this would mean a fundamental change in the credit mechanism...
...Chase assumes that the latter type is within the meaning of the President when the President says "scholar." I think Mr. Chase has raised a straw man. In opposition he offers a picture which I must say seems to me an ideal secondary school master leading youth to great books by the example of his own love of them...