Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Universal voices echo, too, for the Civil War was a universal war-Abraham Lincoln, man of anguish, defining the issue: "We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, best hope of earth"; Ulysses Grant, man of victory, summing up: "Our republican institutions were regarded as experiments up to the breaking out of the rebellion, and monarchical Europe generally believed that our republic was a rope of sand . . . Now it has shown itself capable of dealing with one of the greatest wars that was ever made, and our people have proven"themselves...
...Worst of all, none of the Sherpa guides or the porters the Japanese had hired were Sama people. When the expedition tried to push ahead, the villagers sharpened their kukris (curved knives) and fingered their piles of yak dung. The Japanese quit, climbed a couple of nearby peaks to save face, then went home...
...friends of the then Dean, Leroy M.S. Miner D.M.D. '40, who saw him going out with the old School, rallied to save him. "You're at the wrong meeting," the chairman told Maloney. "You should be at the Association of Medical Schools meeting." Maloney discovered that a special session was scheduled specifically to turn down Harvard, and he withdrew the application...
What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: he gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell. It is a business almost indistinguishable from that of a seller of snake-oil for rheumatism. As for a lawyer, he is simply, under our cash-register civilization, one who teaches scoundrels how to commit their swindles without too much risk. As for a physician, he is one who spends his whole life trying to prolong the lives of persons whose deaths, in nine cases out of ten, would be a public...
...accomplished by providing a large amount of leisure for the inferior man is probably full of folly. He invariably spends it foolishly. The five-day week is humane, and all rational men have supported it, but it would be silly to say that it has produced any public value, save the lowly value of making idiots happy . . . They are just as stupid as they were before they had it; indeed, there is some reason to believe that they are more stupid...