Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rather doubtful if any meets will be held; but the tournament, which will be open to everyone in the University, with classes all the way from the 115 pounders to the heavyweight division, should supply plenty of interest and competition to those interested in the art of self-defence...
Tickets to these "opennights", for which there is no charge, must be obtained in advance by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to "Open Nights", Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge. Applicants must state for which night the tickets are desired, as the tickets will be assigned for one night only...
...Munich airport Baroness von Maltzan, former Fraulein Edith Gruson, daughter of a wealthy Magdeburg steel manufacturer, and her little daughter, Edith, were waiting for the arrival of husband and father. An official approached, sad news in his eye. The Baroness, with superb self-control, sensed the full import of the messenger's news. "Tell me," said she, "is he killed?" And without an answer being given she knew...
...flustered enthusiasm this book has caused, will cause in multitudes of unstable and sentimental readers. Yet it would be unfair to hint that the sentimentality of Dusty Answer is a false emotion. Though it may be an exaggerated one, its exaggeration is a sincere illusion, not a self-conscious parade of intensity. Moreover Author Lehmann writes with a sensitive and fine precision, she betrays in herself an exquisite perception of subtleties in her characters-most marked when she is writing about children. Readers may well suppose that Author Lehmann wisely creates out of her own experiences. Like Judith Earle...
Following up this idea the Bishop expressed the opinion that easy, quick methods of bettering the world in any one particular are all too varied. Though each proponent of a plan may be utterly sincere in his belief, the fallacy of the reasoning is self evident...