Word: lodestar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full professorship, and none need be tagged as destined to be denied it. Under such a policy, disappointments when they come would be gradual, and would be founded at least on permanence rather than prediction. We cannot believe that the avoidance of such disappointments ought to be the lodestar of a tenure system...
Handsome Herbert Goddard was a lodestar of lonely hearts. A member of virtually every "dating club" in Denver, Colo., he had a fatal fascination for women...
...early as 1910 Pianist Paderewski, then at the early zenith of his musical career, proclaimed : "The vision of a strong and independent Poland has always been the lodestar of my existence. Its realization is still the great aim of my life...