Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...permitted for a lowly sailor to point a moral, I should like to say to all who are in doubt that reform commences in one's own back yard and perfection comes from within. . . . And to those who expect miracles out of the war, there is another old saying: those who live by the sword shall perish by the sword. Even my eight-year-old son knows that fighting settles nothing, but is sometimes necessary in order to preserve one's self-respect...
...more than one respect, Franz Werfel's "Song of Bernadette" resembles Richard Llewelyn's recent best-seller and Academy award winner, "How Green Was My Valley." The same rural life, though this time in France, the same genuine sentiments of the peasantry, and the moral lesson can be found in each. However, a sullen resignation to the "Gilded Age' in Llewelyn's picture contrasts with a positive affirmation of a better life beyond this in the "Song of Bernadette...
...final memo to those with an eye on the pocketbook, it may be of interest that the Middies voted on a two-class year book, and will be lending moral as well as financial support...
This vignette of violence had a moral: it happened in a town where a Fascist still held office. Here, as in most of the liberated land turned over to King Vittorio Emanuele and Premier Pietro Badoglio, things were not going well. As U.S. officers had testified (TIME, April 24), Allied prestige had fallen...
...purpose of the University is nothing less than to procure a moral, intellectual and spiritual revolution throughout the world. The whole scale of values by which our society lives must be reversed. . . . [It is] the crusade to which we are called...