Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans believe every boy and girl should have a fair chance to develop to the maximum his or her potentialities," he said. "Our public schools are an expression of this belief. They are democratic in their nature and as an ideal they are designed to provide ladders of opportunity...
There is religion, a tradition of progressive enfranchisement of spiritual truth in workable statutes; there is the reality of justice which all along has been the source of British power . . . there is the ideal of liberty which itself gave birth and secret strength to the early individuality of her children as well as to servants and to strangers...
Since money must be spent, 'and help must be rendered, America can convert every dollar into an ally . . . only by convincing Europeans and Asiatics alike that we hold by the spiritual ideal of Christianity, the intellectual idea of justice, the humanitarian ideal of liberty. . . . And we have much to do-so much to do-right here at home, before such professions will make sense or meaning to the world...
Distant, dusty, and millennially old, Yenan had been the ideal Communist capital-equally inaccessible to invading Japs and preoccupied Nationalists. Now that it was indefensible against Chiang, the Communists would continue the fight in other areas, such as the Communist pocket in coastal Shantung Province and, preeminently, on the Manchurian front. (Last week Shanghai heard that Russian troops were at long last pulling out of Dairen...
...melting pot' and does not cherish a colorless uniformity of beliefs and cultural expressions. . . . We are all dedicated to the belief in the Brotherhood of Man and Fatherhood of God, but each group can and should travel on its own road in order to achieve this coveted ideal...