Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggested, an army of lions that is led by a lamb can be beaten by an army of lambs under the leadership of a lion. Failure of leadership lost the World War for Germany at the outset when a timid High Command failed to keep the strength of its right wing up to the plan of Alfred von Schlieffen on the famed swing through Belgium. Conversely, the Japanese capitalized on brilliant chance-taking when they sent an army to the Asiatic mainland in 1904 with out first bothering to clear out the Russian Navy...
...Brilliant Mind Winston Churchill and Brilliant Mind Lloyd George, whose ideas were squelched by the military men, had had full scope in 1914-18, the War might have taken a different course. And if Germany's Brilliant Mind Schlieffen had been alive to prevent the weakening of the right wing the War might have ended with the capture of Paris in October...
...addicted [to narcotics] before he came to me, mainly because he was suffering from three chronic ailments. . . . Although Fred Barrick was an addict he was a chronic, continually sick man; however, when relieved [by morphine] he was of phenomenally acute, alert, clear and competent mentality. . . . I believe I am right and loyal to my profession in relieving him or anyone . . . if thereby I can save him to some useful purpose. . . . The extraordinary tolerance the man had for gluttonous dosage [often 20 grains a day] was . . . so marvelous that his case deserves my future recording of it for medical history...
...nature of man. I believe that fundamental, biological inequality is a fact of nature. I also believe that the instinct to preserve society is one of the highest sublimations of the erotic instinct plus reason and intelligence. The democratic idea, of the value of every human soul and the right of every human being to protect his own interests in so far as they do not too drastically infringe upon the interests of others, is not in the least incompatible with the aristocratic conception, provided the latter is removed from the field of privilege. A good society should produce...
Last week the right man with the right backing might have had his pick of several big educational jobs. Smith College, Ohio State University and University of Colorado, among others, had arrived at the end of an academic year during which their presidents retired with no successor in sight. At Ohio State and Colorado the reasons for the regents' indecision were largely political. But when it came to picking a new president, none of these colleges or universities found it easy, because none knew exactly what kind of president it wanted...