Word: respectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...younger generation is worthy of respect. "We have heard that its members were soft. Golly, if that generation is soft, I don't know what it is going to be when it gets tough...
...Said he: "Liberal education in America has never been exclusively a preserve of the college. The great liberals . . . were largely self-educated like Benjamin Franklin. In the middle of the 19th Century, colleges were small, few. . . . Everywhere there [were] reading clubs, lyceums . . . well in advance of academic life with respect to art, literature, philosophy, psychology. . . . Millions of adults ... refuse to believe that [liberal education] is closed to [those] not attending college...
...Threat. "Only from the air is [the enemy] able to terrorize the German homeland, but in this respect also technical and administrative conditions for finally breaking his terroristic attacks are coming into existence, as well as those for retaliation by other and more efficient means...
...four years ago. He has many a tale to tell about the native loathing of the Japanese and how New Guineans have risked their skins to save Allied soldiers from the enemy. Wand claims that this loyalty is due to the missionaries' work. Since the Jap came, native respect for them has risen even more, because the missionaries did not run away. So far the Japs have killed nine Anglican missionaries in New Guinea...
...most Borgian drama about man's inhumanity to man. In The Sky's the Limit a modest Flying Tiger (Fred Astaire) on hurried leave, a torpid picture-magazine publisher (Robert Benchley) and a photogenic photographer (Joan Leslie) work out their triangular difficulties with such decent respect for each other that they might be mistaken, in cloudy weather, for very nice human beings. The Sky's the Limit should have been a shattering innovation. Instead, it will do nicely enough until Fred Astaire makes another picture...