Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attended the Elwood public schools. He worked in your factories and your stores. He started the practice of law in your courts. As I look back upon him, I realize that he had plenty of faults. But he also had three steadfast convictions. He was devoted to the ideal of individual liberty, He hated all special privileges and forms of oppression. And he knew without any doubt that the greatest country on earth was the United States of America...
Tribute. Wendell Willkie's sudden death, at 52, somehow made it suddenly apparent how valuable were the things he stood for: courage, integrity, deep belief in democracy, deep faith in humanity, a passionate dedication to the ideal of freedom. When the news of his death was flashed to the four quarters of the earth, the great men of the world sat down and began to construct tributes to him, the flowers for the dead that rarely go to the living. These verbal wreaths-some of them homemade with pain and care, some of them as professional as an undertaker...
...Civilian students at a few men's colleges are enjoying the most luxurious educational setup of the century. At Hamilton College 30 civilian students gathered last spring around 28 faculty members. "It's ideal," remarked one student. "You may find yourself all alone in a class and it won't be with one of the instructors either. It will be with the head of the department." Harvard undergraduates were down to 730 (peacetime figure...
...catalogue of patched-together devices constructed on such engineering principles as this: "The strength of a piece of string, as of a chain, lies in its weakest part, and surely it is wisdom to cut this out and tie in a stronger piece." In 1934 London's Ideal Homes Exhibition included one solemn Robinson exhibit which proved a sensation: a carefully constructed, full-size Robinson house fitted with Robinson gadgets. One of them: a baby-washer made of revolving stands, one for the baby, the other carrying soap, sponge and nailbrush; the baby was washed simply by revolving...
...Without political democracy in our country it will be difficult to bring about an ideal industrial economy. To obtain foreign funds we must first win the confidence of foreign countries...