Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Owing to the impossibility of securing more land, the only location of the new building is the present site of the contagious wing, which it is proposed to move north toward Mt. Auburn Street. This would involve a considerable cost, but again would be an ideal location for the new building. Total cost would be in the neighborhood of $600,000, no funds have been collected...
These concrete instances may be indicative of the fact that Harvard as a whole has begun to look on football purely as a game. It is, perhaps, an extension to the spectator of the new tendency to accept the English ideal of playing the game for the game's sake: that it is better to lose a cleanly played good match than to win a poorly contested one. Such symptoms of saneness in the Harvard attitude toward football sufficiently dispel the bugaboo of overemphasis. Perhaps super-patriotism has become passe and the ultramodern plays or watches his football with pleasure...
Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis was given a testimonial dinner by Philadelphians. Senator George Wharton Pepper called him "the ideal American.'' Said Publisher Curtis: "I never expected to have anything of this sort happen...
...before any of these things, essentially a human, forceful personality. Fastidious in dress, possessing an excellent voice and sense of humor, and leaving poker and whiskey alone, Stuart was intoxicated with the beauty of Virginia, women and horses. Robert E. Lee said of him, "General Stuart was my ideal of a soldier." Which, according to the tenor of the book, was the one compliment Stuart would have desired...
...decades later was to leave Europe in the throes of revolution. Disraeli in 1878 said he had won "Peace with honor" for England, and in 40 years she was embroiled in a conflict that struck at the respectability of the world. But out of that conflict there grew an ideal which may become the most constructive plan ever decided upon by a peace conference. Heretofore the tools of peace have been in the hands of individual statesmen: they have now been given to intelligent citizens. In 1919 Woodrow Wilson established a League of Nations whose purpose was to solve international...