Word: reliant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vice Chairman Charles D. Hilles of the Republican National Committee and his colleagues had no advance inkling of the President's intentions. Mr. Hilles said, "I regret his action. He is a singularly self-reliant...
...Association and heard Sociologist Edmund Cogswell scold bankers and insurance men for saying that the great majority of aged people are dependent on relatives or charity. An extensive investigation which he made in Massachusetts showed that less than 40% were dependent. It showed, too, that every 100 self-reliant sexagenarians have 260 children, while every 100 almshouse inmates have only 62. The association elected me president...
...suffers through an inconclusive courtship by a yokel with a good heart but no "spunk"; welcomes marriage with a muscular, free-spoken nomad of the hill-farms, Jasper Kent, whose children she bears and beside whom, as their narrow fortunes rise and fall, she lives on, always the self-reliant child of the roads at heart, trusting only her own being as the total of reality it is given man to know in his time. The writing is fibrous yet delicate-again like a vine. The author, a mature maiden lady, is little known, save for a volume of children...
That had been an experience more searching and fundamental than loving a woman, siring children or writing histories. The boy was an orphan who had grown up, big-boned, quiet, and self-reliant, in New Mexico. He had learned Latin from a Belgian priest, life from railroad men. He told St. Peter about a prehistoric city of the cliff-dwellers that he had discovered, perfectly preserved in the high, dry atmosphere of an inaccessible mesa. He had explored the place thoroughly and gone to Washington, where he was received with scant courtesy and less attention by the Government...
...This system, by a selective process, will normally attract the more self respecting and self-reliant type of student. It has the added advantage of giving the student field work under wise supervision and of bringing the School into closer touch with the churches of the neighborhood, which are its natural constituency. Members of the entering class are received on this basis and immediately assigned, if they wish financial aid, to church positions...