Word: reliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's Dr. Frederick Hermann Knubel, now 66. As well-respected and well-qualified to speak for U. S. Lutherans as any man, Dr. Knubel last week turned up in Columbus, Ohio for the tenth biennial convention of United Lutherans. To 560 delegates he spoke typical, thrifty, self-reliant Lutheran words...
...family authority, he proceeded to study medicine at the University of Virginia, to establish himself in Atlanta as a general surgeon. Restless, he went to Boston for post-graduate study in orthopedics, returned to Atlanta to become the South's first specialist in that branch of medicine. Self-reliant Dr. Hoke made his own steel braces on his own blacksmith's anvil. With an income of his own, he was free to devote much of his time to organizing Scottish Rite crippled children's homes...
...Frederic Ewald Sondern, president of the Medical Society of the State of New York, whose convention His Majesty's Physician-in-Ordinary addressed this week, tried to keep Lord Horder from speaking his mind to ship-news reporters. That self-reliant Briton, who repeatedly has said that "doctors get mighty little prestige without publicity," refused to be shushed, motioned Dr. Sondern to keep quiet, lit a new briar pipe, declared: "It can be said with every emphasis that [King Edward VIII] is in good health. He keeps himself fit, wants very little doctoring and takes so much exercise that...
Having surveyed Vassar, the observer who traveled on last week to Wellesley, Mount Holyoke, Smith and Bryn Mawr would have found that the years since 1929 had in general treated the five sisters alike-bringing a greater scholastic seriousness and independence, a simpler and more self-reliant social life, an easing of campus restrictions, a virtually doubled enrollment in economics, social studies and fine arts. But he would have been rash as well as obtuse if he had forthwith concluded that the sisters are all alike...
...spots in the country, is the background; in the foreground are the farmers, the business men, the politicians, the farm laborers and factory workers, who made and were made by the development of the state. Beneath it all there is this theme: "Progress" results from the efforts of self-reliant, ambitious, ruthless men and women, those who keep an eye on the main chance and let nothing stand in their way; more kindly, less certain souls, who wish only to live and let live, are trampled beneath the feet of the climbers. But a day of reckoning comes: there...