Word: nobler
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...Capacity for the nobler feelings .... in the majority of young persons .... speedily dies away if the occupation to which their position in life has devoted them .... (is) not favorable to keeping that capacity in exercise. Men lose their higher aspirations as they lose their intellectual tastes, because they have not time or opportunity for indulging them...
...Irish and an Indian mother had the strength of a twelve. At performed with equal on track, baseball court, baseball hockey rink, in swimmingpool, and on James Fennimore Cooper could have envisioned nobler Indian. Today in Hollywood he keep motion picture directors from casting in parts calling for fellow Vanishing Americans...
...Hemingway. When Hemingway killed a rhinoceros at 300 yards, making a beautiful shot that filled him with elation, Karl casually brought down one twice as large. When Hemingway traveled without his guide into wilder country to bag a kudu the real object of the hunt, Karl shot a much nobler specimen almost without effort. Since Green Hills of Africa is an attempt to write "an absolutely true book." Hemingway does not conceal his acute jealousy of Karl, or his bitter disappointment when each of his achievements was bettered. Since the book is also an experiment "to see whether the shape...
Such a sham as the government is planning to carry out deceives no one. Senator Nye and his associates had a nobler purpose in their fight for neutrality than to enable the United States to pay lip service to peace while reaping profits from commerce with the belligerents. As it becomes increasingly clear that Europe is moving toward war the truth must be recognized that the embargo cannot go too far. Even if the moral standpoint can be disregarded, the practical one cannot. The embargo on armaments is a good beginning, nothing more. To make neutrality a fact as well...
...bulls professionally in Spain, they can break into this lucrative industry only by dire expedients. In Madrid last week beauteous blonde Maruja Fernandez, who was a beauteous brunette two years ago when she broke into the bull ring for charity performances, declared: "I believe the Spanish fighting bull is nobler than man. Man is not like the fighting bull which will follow your cape if you are skillful. Man is always seeking advantages and trying to keep woman at a disadvantage. A fighting bull thrills me more than any man I have ever...