Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moral of Dr. Wilmer's story: syphilis can be cured if caught early and treated adequately. But the author's deft cartooning somehow defeats his lofty medical purpose. Corky emerges as such a dashing, ingenious little cuss that perverse readers may find him the hero of the piece...
...these human lives is more than an economic necessity to the recovery of the world. It is more even than the path to order and to stability and to peace. Such action marks the return of the lamp of compassion to the world. And that is part of the moral and spiritual reconstruction of the earth...
...religion of secular humanism. The main articles of this faith are that the exercise of reason and the extension of education are in themselves enough to purify and strengthen the nature of man and enable him to make the world a progressively better place; that a high standard of moral conduct can be confidently commended to the hearts of men on its own merits and by its own authority...
...part stating that I objected that he should not have batted so as to win one game because it might hurt the attendance for the following game is a vile slander. . . . My reputation for personal and moral integrity is far above such baseness...
...conditions had come up from hungry Italy. But not even Italy's plight was as dire as that of Poland. "This is the worst situation we have seen so far," he said to the world. "The Polish people are digging themselves out of the greatest political, intellectual and moral destruc tion ever known. . . . A Polish woman remarked to me today, 'We are weary of dying'. . . . It is a forbidding picture, but with food until the next harvest, Poland can rise again." The Responsibility. From Warsaw Hoover hurried on to Helsinki, then to London. A continent...