Word: moral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maginot Line. Into East Prussia, already an armed camp, went more antiaircraft regiments, and a narrow strip along the border of Poland's vital southern indus trial area was closed to civilians. Reports persisted that a few Italian soldiers had also been brought up there, perhaps as a moral stimulant to their Nazi brothers...
...Courts tennis championship, No. 1 tune-up for this week's All-England tournament at Wimbledon (in which he is not entered); defeating Ghaus Mohammed of India in the final, 6-1, 6-3; for his first major tennis victory since he was imprisoned by the Nazis for moral turpitude over a year ago. In the semifinals, the onetime German Davis Cupper, now living in Sweden, trounced Bobby Riggs, No. 1 U. S. amateur, 6-0, 6-1. Said Donald Budge, who was among the spectators: "I think Germany made a mistake in dropping that fellow...
...Reiser's moral: a well-balanced diet fortifies man against most of the common diseases...
...pale & frail after seven months in prison (to which Nazis sent him on a charge of sex perversion), Tennist Baron Gottfried von Cramm said that the U. S. had denied him a visa to compete at Forest Hills. Reason: U. S. law bans people convicted of a crime involving "moral turpitude...
...honest ordinary people are. She devised a test, gave it to 198 girl students at her college. To encourage candor, she let them answer anonymously. Last week, in School and Society, Miss Omwake reported that "honesty appears to correlate with convenience." Guided by circumstances, not by a consistent moral principle, the same students seemed to be sometimes honest, sometimes not. Some findings...