Word: ourself
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have said nothing about such miscellaneous diversions as safety campaigns, fire-prevention week (when youngsters ride the fire wagon instead of learning to read), or that favorite excrescence on school programs (and budgets): driver training . . . We allow ourself one more question . . . If your school resembles a clambake or decathlon, if it seems more likely to bewilder and daze than to sharpen, furnish, and organize young minds, whose, ultimately, is the fault...
...American-style snack bar. Georges Marcovich, the café's Manager of External Relations, i.e., pressagent, explained: "We want to attract the salaried American vacationer who gets tired of five-course meals at high prices and wants some ham and eggs [price: 65?]. We have tried to democratize ourself and yet remain the perfect gentleman...
...Peale: "There is a very peculiar characteristic in human nature, and that is our inability to forgive ourselves. We do wrong, we ask God to forgive us, and God does forgive us. But it is far more difficult to get ourself to forgive ourself . . . A normal, strong, well-adjusted mind will . . . say, 'God has forgiven me, I have done everything I can to make this matter right, it's in the past, it's washed out, it's all over and done . . .' I sometimes think it was a very wise procedure in the mind...
...Force Chief of Staff, could see an air-power crisis closing on the U.S. at jet speed, while the U.S. was buzzing along in a B-29 frame of mind. "We are tempted to retreat from one fading hope to another," said Vandenberg two years ago, "without subjecting ourself to the discipline of facts." In 1952, the facts demanded an even more rigorous discipline. Items...