Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Dining Halls are under a moral obligation since the new flat rate was adopted last spring not to raise the board rate until June", Aldrich Durant, Business Manager, said yesterday. Thus, despite the fact that they have suffered a deficit of $130,000 in the last twelve months, the Dining Halls are in no position to increase the weekly cost of meals unless "the students themselves take up the matter through the Student Council", he explained...
...Chilean-Argentine opposition. Statesman Welles and such other notable statesmen as Brazil's President Getulio Vargas and Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha, Mexico's Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla and Uruguay's Alberto Guanú had given new meaning to the term Americanism. They had preserved the moral unity of the 21 Nations, driven Axis diplomats from 19 of them, and throttled Axis trade. With resolutions calling for economic mobilization and the unification of hemisphere defenses, they had begun the task of making America economically and physically impregnable...
...written himself frequent memoranda containing pious advice. At Cornell, for instance, Student Mott wrote: "No worry, no excessive indulgence of the emotions, no doing two hours' work in one hour's time. . . . Have only a few intimates and those the best-for no man rises above the moral level of his intimates. Don't neglect the society of cultivated women." His favorite maxim: "Let us turn stumbling blocks into steppingstones...
...Revolution nosed out his master Marx's Das Kapital. Also rans: Charles Beard's Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the U.S.; Bergson's Creative Evolution; Frazer's Golden Bough; W. H. Hudson's Far Away and Long Ago; William James's Moral Equivalent of War; Lewis' Babbitt; Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought; Tolstoy's What...
...Wednesday, and it looks as if it would end short of its goal. If it does, there will be double defeat, physical defeat in the non-performance of essential services, both in the Community Fund agencies of Greater Boston and in the national work of the Red Cross, moral defeat in the failure of one segment of the American people to meet the first serious task brought to them by this war. Everyone is talking about war sacrifice. Here is the chance to make a start...