Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Look forward to the important crises of your life. They are nearer than you are apt to imagine. It is a very safe protective rule to live today as if you were going to marry a pure woman within a month. That rule you will find a safe guard for worthy living. It is a good rule to endeavor hour by hour and week after week to learn to work hard. It is not well to take four minutes to do what you can accomplish in three. It is not well to take four years to do what...
...human side poverty is the rule and actual misery only too frequent among musicians. On the artistic side the activities of concert halls and operas, filled as they are with memories of past glories, force upon the observer the unpleasant truth that art is hopelessly dependent upon economic prosperity. . . . "We must remember that an overwhelmingly large percentage of the composers, performers and teachers who make our musical life what it is today are Europeans; that most of the important music produced is European, and that the fundamentals of the whole art as we know and practice it are European...
...thesis was "The Negro Problem." Long a member of the law firm of Hays and Hays, he began to interest himself in politics, became the Republican National Committee Chairman in 1918. People wondered at this "human flivver," this sophisticated "booster," this shrewd politician who quoted the Golden Rule, who said, "There is no twilight zone in politics; right is right and wrong is wrong . . . rights shall be held equally sacred and sacredly equal...
...strained, heaved up anchor and Mr. Thompson again resumed his comfortable deck chair, gazed about as the boat proceeded down the coast of Mindanao, richest undeveloped island under the U. S. flag. Occasionally the party would land and thereupon be presented with the usual requests to continue U. S. rule. As his good ship lay off Zamboanga, Mr. Thompson was told that a Filipino-Moro clash had broken out over a question as to which delegation should have priority in greeting him. Said the Emissary: "If there is any danger, I shall not land...
...What publisher "may operate in the Finger Lakes but not by rule of thumb...