Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research would not attend a scheduled symposium on the "molecular basis of enzyme action." Reason: Schmitz's veto had "placed the University of Washington outside the community of scholars." The big boycott hit the University of Washington where it hurt-right in its pride over its new, $12 million medical school. Said President Schmitz in his own defense: "I cannot emphasize too strongly that [the ban on Oppenheimer] was not a whimsical or a capricious decision." It had nothing to do with academic freedom, he insisted, but was based on a university policy that faculty...
...double portion, Mrs. Millic J. Corballis must refuse. "I'm sorry, deary," she apologizes, "but its against the rules." Formerly the boys would take so much ice cream that it spilled from their trays on to the floor: and when an unwary Wellesley girl slipped and skidded on her pride, the one-portion rule was adopted. But, "come back, sweetheart," adds Mrs. Corballis, "there is plenty...
...Pride & Protest...
...Pride & Appreciation. Back home in Manila, "Operation Brotherhood" increasingly caught the national fancy. "For a long time we Filipinos have been receiving help from others, mostly the United States," said a Manila librarian. "I think it's a good thing we're able to help others now." The Filipinos began talking of 3,350,000 treatments in 1955, a training program for more Vietnamese nurses, and village first-aid squads. The International Junior Chamber of Commerce has adopted the project, and Jaycees from other Asian countries want to join...
...continually "re-trueing" himself to nature, Marin avoided the last pitfall of great artists: pride. He loved life and enjoyed art to the last. His best biographer, MacKinley Helm, was with him a few days before his death, and tried to comfort him in his pain: " 'But think what it has meant, Mr. Marin,' I said, 'think what it mounts up to to have been painting past eighty and getting better and better...