Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moral: Journalist, before thou seekest to cast out the mud from thy brother's hand, fling down the filth from thine...
...World War was a moral miracle. It was a great discovery of American youths, who, in life believed themselves to be quite ordinary, to find at the end of a few months what they could really do. It was the using of ordinary talents in an extraordinary way, which gave them success...
...looked forward to a better world that has not come. Instead we see confusion and distress, ill-will and suffering; peoples still blinded and staggered by the smoke, and scorched by the embers, of the vast conflagration that swept across the earth. This might have been foreseen, for moral effort, when at an end, gives way to moral lassitude; and to hold the spirit on a lofty plane amid the sordid cares of peace is harder than in the actress of war. To do so we must keep our thoughts in tune with those who gave their lives upon...
...appointed to his position by the governor-general. Such an official, outside the jurisdiction of General Wood, was arrested and tried for bribery. Because of insufficient evidence, the man was acquitted, but the judge in his decision stated that the acquitted man did not have the moral qualifications to remain in public office. The mayor of Manila discharged him. The latter appealed to General Wood, who on the basis of his ultimate power of control, reinstated the man. The mayor resigned. As a result of similar situations, nearly the entire Filipino cabinet has resigned. Thus, the political crisis...
...more equliable law, which would also avoid the necessity for such ambiguous action as that of Secretary Davis, would make the entrance of each individual immigrant depend on a personal examination, designed to show the applicant's fitness on grounds of physical mental, and moral fitness without regard to the country from which he comes. This would undoubtedly entail a larger personnel of examiners, and examiners of bigh calibre; and to avoid the present inhumanity of sending back unlikely prospects, the examinations would have to be held on the other side. Certainly the difficulties are great but unless some such...