Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power of the French franc by causing a great withdrawal of gold from New York? Unlike the drain on the Bank of England it could be nothing but a grandstand play for the U. S. has still twice as much gold in its vaults as France. Still, the moral effect of the move would be great...
...right to be curious about everything, my acquired interest in anything or anybody, and my constitutional privilege to speak my mind about anything I am taxed to support. On the other hand, I have not tried to prove something or improve anybody; exploit somebody or expound anything; point a moral or point with pride; sound a warning or forecast the future." In short, Dorsey wanted to get his mind Clear About Things. In the course of reading this 958-page digression you may not always agree that he has fulfilled his promises; his continued excitement may even at times have...
...peoples have passed through times just as hard as these, and the present is not in itself so bad. It appears to be so because remedies call for certain phenomena of a vital nature which are determined chiefly by moral factors and by increasing independence of the world's financial currents. . . . Italy will continue to contribute co-operation with all her strength...
President Edwin G. Thompson secured the scientific approval of Vilhjalmur Stefansson; the moral support of Second Assistant Postmaster General Warren Irving Glover; the co-operation of Canada; the advice of bankers Hayden Stone Co. Then he mapped a series of monthly experimental flights of which Cramer's is the first. The implication was that if and when a two-day, two-night service is proved practicable, Thompson Aeronautical Corp. will be in line for a mail contract. (Estimated payload needed 18,000 letters at 50? each...
Pleased with what everyone present considered a moral victory, Walker immediately asked for a match with Schmeling. In his dressing room, he learned that his first wife, Mrs. Maude Walker had attached $27,800 of his $42,000 share of the receipts, filed papers accusing him of "almost diabolically inhuman" conduct. Sharkey, taciturn before a fight, always feels very free to talk as soon as he can get his gloves off. Not at all ashamed, he said: "Inactivity beat me. . . . I thought I won. . . . He's nobody's mug and much tougher than Schmeling. . . . I'll fight...