Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last analysis, the whole thing goes back, not entirely to the murderers themselves not to the parents, but to our civilization and system of education. Our system of education, whereby a man's mind his intellect--is developed at the expense of his physical and moral strength...
...Nestor of the House of Representatives, rose before his colleagues in council: "In all the 60 years that have elapsed since the war there has not been one great dramatic poem written, one lyric equal to the soldiers' songs sung during that war, nor one of high moral import. We are living in a utilitarian age, and the spirit that actuated that great war appears to have gone. "What have we now? Yes, We Have No Bananas, Take Us To the Land of Jazz, Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here-songs of the vulgar type. "The most...
...should be made clear, too, that college work is no sinecure. If one goes at it with that idea, or feels himself gravitating towards it as a "sheltered career," he will suffer rude awakening. Nowhere is the strenuous life more demanded, or competition keener, or intellectual sinew and moral fibre more indispensable, or the spirit of consecrated devotion more searchingly tested. If the assay does not in these things show pretty much pure gold the vein will soon be worked out. There is no eight hour day in teaching; there are no flesh pots. The high importance of the calling...
...Reservations. Two principal reservations were suggested: 1) that the U. S. "disclaim all responsibility" for the exercise by the Court of its right to give advisory opinions. (This reservation was included to avoid the moral effect of an advisory decision by the Court on such a question, for example, as whether we ought to exclude Japanese immigrants from the U. S.); 2) that in adhering to the Court the U. S. assumes no obligation inconsistent with its rights under the Monroe Doctrine...
...ideal type for a test case. Also, being familiar with police methods, he may have surmised that he was being invited into a trap; and acting on the theory that he was being given rope with which to hang himself, he determined no doubt that his moral demise should at least be accomplished with eclat...