Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ambassadors and Ministers in foreign countries, has as a rule been merely a tenant. The disadvantages of this have been double: 1) Rent has been almost always exorbitantly high; 2) quarters have been, as a rule, inadequate. A third disadvantage, in countries that set more store by outward show than simple-living Uncle Sam, has been the loss of prestige and dignity due to the poor housing of our emissaries, even as compared to that of such countries as Siam, Poland, Cuba, Persia...
...outward View, three Folds of Bullocks-Hide...
...Relieved of the embarrassment,'' murmured the plumage of monster Rumor, "of an impending election, Calvin Coolidge will recast his cabinet. Secretary Hughes will be urged to stay-but probably will insist on retiring. Secretaries Mellon, Hoover, Stone will stay. Secretary Wilbur may be removed outward and upward. Secretaries Weeks, Work, New, Davis will...
Even granting a certain surface truth in what he says this latest college critic has surely allowed himself to be misled by what are mere "outward shows". No doubt he reaches a true appreciation of some Harvard men, or even of a certain class of them; but he is not justified upon such evidence in proceeding to a wholesale indictment, or in leaving the impression that his charge applies to that abstract, composite, and illusive phantasm--the Harvard...
...homes in a new clime, the negro finds his absolute position better than before, but his relative position worse. The ties that held him in the South are cut asunder. His inferiority complex is cast off. Now for the first time he realizes that he is a man. In outward shows the North accords him that equality he seeks; but with curdled disappointment he discovers...