Word: self-respect
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...culture. Boas had piled up enough data to convince him that such was not the case. His Mind of Primitive Man was published in 1911. When he was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1931, that book was called "A Magna Charta of self-respect for the 'lower' races...
Causes: Detestation of propeller noise, fear of falling, fear of crashing, fear of seeing mangled bodies, fear of losing jobs, deflation of ego, loss of self-respect, fear of social degradation, anxiety for welfare of family. Dr. Armstrong thinks flying injures the actual tissues of the brain. He is trying to demonstrate this hypothesis by rattling rats in baskets until they go crazy, then examining their brains under the microscope...
...hospitalization insurance plan seems to be the most successful of several hundred schemes now being tried out whereby patients, doctors and hospitals can get together with self-respect and mutual benefit. Fifteen hundred Dallas schoolteachers showed that this system would work by paying $6 a year to Baylor University Hospital. Other cities which have followed suit include San Antonio, Houston, New Orleans, Memphis, Sacramento, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Cleveland, Rochester, Washington, Durham, Newark...
...meant almost certain death, if not on the spot, a few days later; and on being sentenced to this fiendish punishment, an offender was usually offered the choice of being hanged. A severe flogging smashed a man; he was ill for weeks after it, and rarely recovered his self-respect if he originally had any good in him. The Regulations did certainly lay down that a dozen strokes on the bare back was to be the maximum, but nobody took any notice of the rule; two or three dozen were usual, a hundred common, while the infliction...
...Robert I. Wilson of Kansas City: The Administration's seeming intent to act on the principle that all successful business is crooked, we object to. . . . Your administration has . . . contributed to the decay of self-reliance and self-respect. . . . It has undermined confidence with its failure to keep a single campaign promise...