Word: oneself
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...regard the farm problem like the poor, as something 'we have with us always.' You discuss it along the same lines as the ladies refer to the household help problem-something that has to be endured if one is to avoid having to do the work oneself...
...Houdinize-"to release or extricate oneself from confinement, bonds, etc." (Funk and Wagnall's dictionary...
...Group drill, like team athletics, teaches self control or command over oneself while a member of the group When acting as a leader one develops in addition self confidence, initiative, and a sense of responsibility. Moreover such drill improves posture, teaches alertness, and inoculates respect for authority...
Died. Alexander Julius Heinemann, 51, president of the New Orleans Southern League baseball club; at Heinemann Park, New Orleans; by his own hand. Five days prior he had interrogated a groundskeeper as to how one might best shoot oneself. Causes: stockmarket losses, ill health...
...crack ship of the latter's line, the Bremen, fastest in the world. On the dock the two men exchanged elaborate, guttural compliments, for Herr Stimming frequently crosses in Dr. Cuno's ships-the idea being that one eye on the enemy is worth two on oneself. Stepping briskly into Herr Stimming's office, the General Directors barked their joint statement at a bristle-haired male stenographer who neatly transcribed it thus...