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Most favored of all was the soulful thought that the best way to meet the Soviet challenge was to reform ourselves at home-had we a right to point the finger at anybody else's broadest beam, so long as there was the slightest mote...
King James: "Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother...
From the shadowed haven of the wings, the stage of Broadway's Mark Hellinger Theater looked as big and lonely as a desert at midday. Its barren boards reflected a fierce, mote-filled glare from banked and blazing floodlights, and out beyond it, in the hushed cavern of the theater, the audience waited like a beast in its den-multi-headed, thousand-eyed, impatient and menacingly silent. It was a terrible place for a ballplayer to find himself on the eve of the World Series...
...John Mote Stevenson '52 of Glendale, Ohio, and Lowell House was yesterday elected captain of the varsity basketball team for the 1951-52 season. He succeeds Edward Bernard Smith...
...that there are no sinners [in the Senate] except the other fellow. Each man is busily engaged in trying to extract the mote from his brother's eye, and is not at all concerned about the beam...