Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Realizing that clothes and instruments would be handy for the music makers, 31 alumni have gotten together under the leadership of William F. Halstead, of New York City, Princeton '15, in an effort to raise some money to buy these conveniences. In some future year, at least a moral victory is hoped for over Harvard...
...British Government which officially maintains that the country is also "The Free and Independent Kingdom of Egypt." For Zaghlul's widow last week all this was too much. In French she cried: "I am boycotting everything British, even the language. We Egyptian women are throwing our moral force and encouragement- and we are ready to give also our physical force, though it is not great-behind the men fighting for the liberty of Egypt...
Neither these rebuttals to Sanctions nor Sanctions themselves were last week of more than moral interest. Italy is basically so poor in natural resources and in cash that never in modern times has she been able to make more than a roulette player's cast on the world's battlefields for the supreme prize of Power. The classic roulette odds of 36 to 1 approximately represented Italy's chance to conquer and to hold against other players, all of Ethiopia, even before sanctions were declared. But it is possible to win heavily at roulette...
...Federal Reserve Board, whooped gladly and put on a brisk weekend rally. Headlined the New York Times: WASHINGTON WILL NOT APPLY BRAKES TO BOOM IN STOCKS; ECCLES CALLS IT HEALTHFUL. Said one smart broker, reading Governor Eccles' statement: "Best market letter in years!" Traders drew only one moral: the Administration's "breathing spell" for business is to be followed by a breathing spell for the Stock Exchange...
...society has not attained the peak of liberal rationality which he desired it is at least clear that the urban theatre goers have arrived at a state of sophistication which prevents them from regarding illicit love as shocking. Ibsen's fight in "Ghosts" was against convention and the rigid moral code of his time which resolved life into "duty and obligation" and left happiness as a sort of rare unearned increment. The age-old moral and social laws which press upon the young, forcing them to accept destiny instead of fighting it, the incessant pressure of conservative institutions such...