Word: needs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gates, names which are suffixed by no honorary degrees, yet names which embody much of the best that Harvard stands for. And he who is optimistic about the future of Harvard College, he who believes it to be more today than an outmoded survival of Puritan New England need wish for no better argument than the certainty that in each graduating class today there are more men whose undoubted fame in after life will bring little conventional credit to the University...
...burden of Mr. Lowell's remarks on this occasion were apropriately to the contrary as he pointed out a philosophical escape. Personal success need not turn to ashes and bitter brew if only regarded as the means to a greater end. We need not fall back completely on the scant solace which comes with the final realization that happiness accompanied the labor itself and not the material fruits of the labor, that we must enjoy in retrospect...
Accuracy is a jewel. In TIME, May 23, p. 11, col. 2, paragraph second, line 2, you say: "Almost six feet tall" of "Carrie" Nation, Mrs. Nation-her name is "Carry," not "Carrie," as you say. I have her The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation, written by herself...
...which prevented swallowing and before each meal this had to be opened with the tube, which, removed after 15 minutes, left the passage free. The patient then ate raw chopped beef and milk and egg without difficulty. So well did the dog come to realize her plight and her need of assistance, that when feeding time came and she was let out of her cage, she ran at once to the operating table and jumped up, standing quietly for the insertion of the catheter which would permit her taking food. The tissues are regaining normality but it will...
...need to be cautious about putting up career men, simply because they are career men . . . against the able negotiators in first authority now practically conducting the diplomatic negotiations of European countries. ... I do not have individuals in mind. But . . . any custom of appointments and promotions involving career men must never dull the sharp discretion which the appointing power should employ in selecting our best men for our most important diplomatic work...