Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wants no more. When he first joined the Institute, its officials asked him to name the salary he expected. His figure was so low that the officials had to raise it to preserve Institute standards. But if he is indifferent about his own money, Albert Einstein has a strict moral sense about other people's. His associates were amused last week because he had put his foot down against too many free copies of The Evolution of Physics being scattered around Princeton. It did not seem fair to the publishers...
...Todd's conclusion in regard to the less savory pastimes was that the "red lights burn brightest in deteriorated or neglected neighborhoods,"* that the cure is not moral indignation, nor character education, but better living conditions...
...York's Department of Education set out to determine how well Roslyn's children read, wrote & multiplied. The investigating committee, headed by Assistant Commissioner John Cayce Morrison, sympathetic to progressive education, also tried to measure how well Roslyn was getting along toward good social and moral habits, an understanding of the world, "joy and happiness." Last week Dr. Morrison produced a 56-page report, announced these salient findings...
...greater prize than individual Immortality. Happiest of all, it can be experienced during life. But the more distant is a goal, the more chance that less will reach it. Will the Soulless Age come to disbelieve in Immortality by an inability to achieve it through Work, and thereby generate moral and spiritual decadence...
...brave study in modern neuroses, at its worst the book is only a variation on the case histories in Freudian source books. Again, as with the first volume of his tetralogy, publishers in the East refused to touch the book, leaving Idaho's Caxton Printers to take a moral risk somewhat akin to that taken by the publishers of Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover...