Word: reliant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years of compulsory Latin and a gallery-full of modern paintings would make the village a cultural cen- tre. The hardy life would "make the boy of 12 self-reliant, the boy of 14 resourceful, the boy of 16 persevering...
...evidence of self-reliant, independent thinking the book has merit; it may be the type of literature needed to stimulate an intellectual awakening and a keener interest in scientific theory. Its unorthodoxy in itself is no criterion. John Stuart Mill once spoke wisely of the "clearer and livlier impression of truth produced by its collision with error...
...Witches' Mountain" is a three-act "gaucho" drama laid on the wild slopes of the Andes. The action is for the most part fast and vigorous, and the play is colorful and strong in dramatic effect, depicting the self-reliant spirit of the gaucho. The plot concerns the scheming and planning of three ranchmen to obtain the love of Inda, the daughter of a fellow ranchman. The story gradually increases in intensity until it has worked up to a powerful climax...
...More than anything else, Americanism means a belief in the geographical state without class consciousness or antagonism within the state; it means allegiance to this geographical group rather than to any class group, whether religious, occupational, racial or linguistic. It is that robust, self-reliant and energetic, but neighborly attitude, that regards all humanity within reach as neighbors and fellow-citizens; which in the main desires to be let alone, and whose neighborliness consists in the willingness to let its neighbors alone except in a time of need...