Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...everywhere. No one is satisfied with anyone, except, now and then oneself. The educational world is introspective and the criticism of the day is a criticism of impatience. Uneasy folk upbraid one another for not achieving that which the demon of an age of externals longs for but will never achieve-cultured calm, a philosophical detachment...
...date for Japanese exclusion is ridiculous; practically, it is serious. Undoubtedly Ambassador Hanihara when he committed the colossal diplomatic blunder of speaking about "grave consequences" if the bill were passed, spoke little but the truth. The essence of diplomacy is to appreciate the truth and keep it to oneself...
...Tibaldi. They were considered impossibly sumptuous, but the Holy Father said: "We do not ignore the grave difficulties of the work, but considering its great necessity, we trust and shall always continue to trust in Divine Providence, which will not abandon us. ... It is a great imprudence to allow oneself to be conquered by the first difficulties; and in works having to do with divine worship, we must begin with great magnificence, leaving to posterity and above all to Divine Providence, the task of completing them...
...singing several hymns and Harvard songs. H. H. Mae Cubbin '26, chairman of the Committee on Bible Study and Discussion Groups of the Phillips Brooks House Association, next introduced the speaker of the evening. Dean Willard Learoyd Sperry, of the Divinity School who talked on how to adjust oneself to the demands of College life...
...apparently on the way to the best seller lists. Freeman Tilden himself is a serious, short, sturdy little man. He speaks with the clipped phrases and the unmistakable accent of New England. He has spent some years in England because he says that it is so comfortable to feel oneself secure among one's ancestors...