Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Protestant churchmen at Cleveland (see col. 3) made a tremendous concession when they waived their moral and practical doubts of Dumbarton Oaks...
...corrected. . . . Dumbarton Oaks is a ghost-project today because the common sense of the common people has asserted itself to ask one question: What kind of peace is this Dumbarton Oaks charter asking us to guarantee? Until that question can be answered in a way to satisfy the moral demands of the American people, any effort to make them rise to enthusiastic support of Dumbarton Oaks is just so much time wasted. . . . Win a decent peace, a reconciling peace, and a true 'general international organization' for its maintenance will become not only possible but inevitable. But let that...
...know that hidden talents can be overlooked, even when they strike you between the eyes three times a week through management cases and another time when in contact with them. Moral; keep your I.Q. within reason just for the sport of the game...
...profound Christianity of the early Americans has waned: not only are more Americans without religious adherence, but there is also a wavering and thinning of faith among church members. Moreover, it is now argued that human affairs are governed by passions, blind drives, fears or needs, "while rational purposes, moral codes, and philosophies are a mere facade behind which these more primitive and less reputable impulsions do their work...
...Moral Athletes. The essential faith of America came into being in the cold, clearheaded, spacious world of Puritan New England. Authoritarian though theocracy was, moral martinets though they sometimes became, the Puritans sailed their ships into the open seas. They cultivated their moral strength like athletes training, and they used that strength out of doors, in the world, as statesmen and soldiers. "We are still drawing upon the reserves of spiritual vigor which they accumulated...