Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...care." What we consider the noblest of mankind, even outside of Sunday church, have always devoted themselves to that which went beyond their immediate interests, whether it be the unknown in knowledge or the betterment of mankind for its own sake.... Man is a social animal, and thus a moral animal. What has happened in Germany shocked us because it attacks our faith in this nobler nature of man. It attacks not merely our Christian heritage but also our belief in the dignity of man here on this earth. The United States was founded by those who were persecuted abroad...
Harvard University defends its basic beliefs by aiding the persecuted in its small way.... Its funds are for the defence of its underlying principles. It is not so much the moral indignation, but the renewing of its own true strength. It states our reason for living. Walter Muther...
Frank Buchman (Sun. II a. m. MBS). Oxford Group's founder and leader speaks by short wave from London on "Moral Rearmament...
...great was early prejudice against the stage that in Philadelphia a hospital refused money raised by a benefit performance; in Newport, R. I., Othello was billed as "A Series of Moral Dialogues" and the playhouse dubbed "A Histrionic Academy." A big factor in making an honest woman of the theatre was George Washington's great love...
...much of a moral victory a 0-0 tie would have been was evident at the close of the half, when the Yale stands accorded their team a great ovation, while the Harvard stands just sat and shivered...