Word: moral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brothels. Every year they are patronized by two-thirds of the student body; every year they flout with greater insolence the decency and respectability of this College. Their grip has tightened until they threaten to constrict all the life and all the vitality from the Harvard system, and the moral degeneration for which they are responsible is cumulative. They are making a mockery of a Harvard education; a lie of a Harvard diploma...
...idea is obsolete." Three years ago she still hoped Hitler would work out his destiny through the League. A year ago she expressed the hopeful wish that some day there would not be armies, but just a world police force. But by last February she had to conclude that "moral rearmament," as proposed by the Oxford Movement, for example, would not be enough. "I mean," she wrote, "that, much as we may dislike to do it, it may be necessary to use the forces of this world in the hope of keeping civilization going until spiritual forces gain sufficient strength...
...literary career of heavy-jowled, bearded, 48-year-old Elliot Paul might be pointed as moral for expatriates. Living in Europe most of the time since 1925, he has published eight books; all except one dealt with Americans. But the only success among them was the one with foreign characters: The Life and Death of a Spanish Town, which told the tragic story of Santa Eulalia, where Elliot Paul lived from 1931 until his last-minute departure aboard a German cruiser...
...cowboy, is a Western historian, author of an excellent study of Indian war, Death in the Desert; 2) his Jubal Troop makes a fortune instead of leading a romantic life among scenes of gun play, escape, cattle rustling, prospecting, big-time gambling. Author Wellman's gratuitous moral: Jubal Troop's money-grabbing...
...student what he wants can be carried too far. Dr. Prosser, with his deadly scientific bias, has a mortal fear of what he calls "preachment," which he lumps together with "untried theories and mere factual learning" as the evils of traditional education. One can hope that his sterile, moral, practical youth never becomes an overwhelming reality...