Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Splendid courage, itself a sort of knowledge that the only things to be feared are ignorance and baseness in oneself...
...newspaper correspondent, writing from Wazzan behind the French lines, thus began his daily despatch on the Moroccan War (TIME, May 11, et seq.) : "One requires no map in order to follow operations in this important sector. One can install oneself comfortably-except for the flies, whose buzzing might be taken for Abd-el-Krim's air service -on a shady cafe terrace and drink cool beer while a friendly French officer explains the situation with a magnificent panorama of mountains stretched out before one for orientation...
...from illness in body or aberration in mind", and of those the second is the more important to the man himself, and of by far the greater moment to the rest of the world. If to err in thought is an evil, and to escape it a benefit to oneself and others, there is also a duty to keep one's mind from error and to think aright...
...himself and drop it into the mail. On receiving if the next morning he had an impression of the way it would affect the person for whom it was intended not a bad thing to do, if not literally at least in imagination, as a means of putting oneself in another's place...
...Slattery '91, "Ways of Reaching a Decision on a Life Work", Nov. 9, Dean C. R. Brown '94, Yale University, "College Life"; Nov. 16, Rev. H. K. Sherrill G. '12, Trinity Church. Boston, "Our Religious Inheritance", Nov. 23, Dean W. L. Sperry '18, "The Ability to Think for Oneself". Nov. 30, Dr. T. G. Soares, University of Chicago, "Social Experience"; Dec. 7, Professor Julian L. Coolidge '95. "The View from Above"; Dec. 14, Bishop William Lawrence '71, "Harvard College...