Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must have the courage to stand behind the findings of our commission!" cried Free State Senator Joseph Connolly in rich, impassioned brogue. "If the League hesitates or falters, fearing lest by its action it may offend, then as an organization built up by moral support of what is right the League will not survive and will not deserve to survive...
...rugged fellow and something of a cynic, ordered that a Latin inscription be carved under his name on his tombstone, which translated reads: "Dedicated to Oblivion." The Vagabond, like a bad preacher, has put the text at the end of the sermon, but perhaps it can pass for a moral as well...
...Protestantism has a mouthpiece it is the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, founded 24 years ago to give its constituent worshippers voice on moral (not theological) questions. With altering lay attitudes on social questions the Federal Council has tried to keep pace. Whether it has outrun the minds of its constituency will be apparent this week, when some 400 clergymen and laymen representing 26 denominations gather in Indianapolis for the Sixth Quadrennial Meeting of the Federal Council. Ready for the delegates' perusal are voluminous reports by many a committee, on such innocuous matters as goodwill, race...
...connection with the liberalization of college requirements, Dean Hawkes of Columbia University brings out an important point in saying that the development of "a keen sense of values, moral, social, esthetic," is the duty of the college to its students. He believes in the inculcating of judgment rather than "the handing down of formulas and dicta from the teacher's desk." The reason for the intellectual level of colleges being higher than twenty years ago is attributed by Dean Hawkes to the difference in the collegiate educational methods. Today colleges are breaking away more and more from traditional requirements...
...avenging Martyrs Pavel & Fedor. Their murderers were rounded up, herded into court and a typical Soviet "propaganda trial" began. Presumably several of the knife-handy villagers will be sentenced to "the supreme measure of social defense": Death by shooting. Orators all over Russia will point the moral, urge good children to continue to peach and if necessary die for Communism, sure that they will be avenged...