Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employ counsel to defend suits filed against his committee's activities by William Randolph Hearst and others (TIME, March 23), he wanted $10,000. Even more than the money, he wanted the moral support of the House and the White House. Therefore he put his request for an appropriation in the form of a joint resolution which would have to go through Congress and be signed by the President. But would the House, some of whose members had been badly smeared by the Senate's lobbying disclosures, pass such a joint resolution? To pave the way for favorable...
...communications from Berlin," continued M. Flandin, "betray a condition of mind that wishes to impose a kind of moral direction of affairs on the rest of Europe. It now remains to be seen whether other nations will agree to be morally directed in this...
...nations break treaties when it suits them. We have done so ourselves!" snorted Lord Arnold. "I have heard a great deal of talk in the last few days about breaking treaties, and people have spoken with moral indignation about powers which broke treaties. Such talk leaves me cold. I am getting very tired of this...
Tragic commentary on Negro-baiting carried to one logical conclusion was the gruesome photograph, added to point the exhibit's moral, which showed the lynched and lifeless body of Negro Rubin Stacy of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., suspended from a tree around which stand neatly dressed young white children in snickering, fascinated horror...
This cram, psychologists tell us, does aid students to pass a factual examination. But most of the facts are soon forgotten. Long-time retention suffers. The cram, too, helps little in courses in which a student must interpret theories. The moral, professors say, is "Be prepared"--all through the quarter...