Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point of what I want to say is ... that you have the first honest and yet successful news organ there has ever been. And that is a fact which defeats some of the real diseases our country has, including its lack of moral and spiritual strength...
...soldiers have their way, U.S.-Russian relations are entering the most tranquil period of their history. To the broad question, "Do you think the U.S. will fight Russia?" came a definite "No" (61%), with doubtfuls or undecideds 20% and "Yeses" 19%. To the moral question, "Should it?" came an even more decisive "No" of 80%, with doubtfuls 12% and "Yeses...
...Moral: Preparedness and universal compulsory military training with a unified government are needed to save modern governments from the fate of Aethelred the Unready...
...stands on Novelist For ster's "barricade" and smiles with maddening good humor on both sides. In this comic manner lies a method: "The fierce plots move forward to grand simplicities, but the comic manner confuses the issues, forcing upon us the difficulties and complications of the moral fact. The plot suggests eternal division, the manner reconciliation; the plot speaks of clear certainties, the manner resolutely insists that nothing can be quite so simple. 'Wash ye, make yourselves clean,' says the plot, and the manner murmurs, 'If you can find the soap...
...youngest man in his class at Yale, and a member of the teetotaling Philencratian Society. At 16, Judah was bluntly bounced out of Yale. Probable reasons: "association with a set of disorderly fellows who were addicted to card playing and gambling," theft, mysterious temptations "which he had not the moral force to resist." Judah went to New Orleans to make his fortune...