Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...They have added lustre even to the fame of Harvard. The memory of so much service and self-sacrifice can never pass from us. It will be cherished in perpetuity by the relations and friends of those whom the Harvard Unit has tended with such admirable devotion...
...generally known that the N. C. flying boats which not long ago accomplished the successful trans-Atlantic flight, were the first heavier-than-air machines in this country to be equipped with electric self-starters for each of their big Liberty engine motors...
...think that a senator of the United States would place his party before his cup. But there are whisperings abroad that those same thirst-inspiring senators have "a jug 'neath the bough" carefully stored away. What better argument than this on the evils of the American government could any self-suspecting bolshevist employ...
...shades of departed centuries! Are we to allow this "willful group of men" to undermine our self-respect by forcing us to the yeast-cake and the vanilla extract? If the President had declared the emergency law cancelled, think of what tonight would be. Think of what next morning would be. Truly, the war was a terrible war to have changed the world so much...
...Perhaps my opinion of the average American's attitude on this question may be altered somewhat," said Mr. Walpole in commenting on his impressions while visiting this country. "As I have travelled through this country, the outstanding impression which I have received is the self centred attitude of the population. They are wrapped up in their local politics; they are interested almost exclusively in their local affairs and don't seem to be concerned with or even appreciate international conditions which to me appear vitally necessary...