Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...individually or collectively, agreements with all who are willing to make agreements with all who are willing to make agreements with him, subject only to equal, just and impartial restraint through a representative government, is among the most fundamental rights of the American citizen. Each man's labor, mental or physical, is the original treasury out of which he pays his way and supports himself and those dependent upon him. The moment he begins to exercise his liberty in accordance with his condition, judgement, ability and character, economic inequality is natural and inevitable. These differences, upon which much emphasis...
...advantages of education and travel in foreign countries. There is, perhaps, no other government career which offers more possibilities for responsible activities and real achievement in matters affecting the welfare of our country than the Foreign Service to young men who desire to give their best moral and mental efforts for this high purpose...
...seldom that a dispassionate man feels called upon to answer an attack upon the existing order of things. But, having read the communication you printed last Friday under the heading of "The Mental Luxury of Conservatism," and realizing the enormous force such communications exert on the public opinion of our community and the insidious threat they offer to the very existence of Boston society, I think it necessary to reply. Being neither a Northeasterner nor a Middle-Westerner, I truest that I am not partisan...
...explain the critic. Be it said at once that I have no hostility toward the middle-western man. But I think that if he had a keener sense of humor he would not be so dead in earnest about attacking poor old Boston. He breezes into Harvard with a mental complex, of which Chicago possibly is the password. He finds here a large number of his class-mates already acquainted and firmly established in a society into which he cannot break as a Ford breaks into a show-window. He generally does not deign to make friends with Bostonians...
...mental side the attack is always busy trying to develop new conditions of play to outwit their defensive opponents, and the defense has to watch the former, and, after it acts, to readjust or devise its scheme of defense. The defensive mind, because it has to act later, must act more quickly. The team play is of the style found in basketball except that twelve men must work together instead of five. Combined with the team play is the personal contact; each man except the goal-tender has a man to play against and cover...