Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...education of our officers to administer and lead armies does not mean that military men are seeking to provoke hostilities. Rather it is a continuation of the only course that a self-respecting nation can pursue. So inoffensive are our purposes and our manners that now, as always, our country suffers from a reputation and a consciousness of weakness...
Called to Chicago in 1924, Mr. McAndrew had injured the feelings of self-satisfied Chicago school teachers by setting to work on the supposition that he could make the Chicago schools more educational than he found them...
...racial needs. Speeches were made, newspapers commented, resolutions were accepted and published. Speeches. Said Dr. Wilhelm Mensching of Petzen, Germany: "The fruits of love as outlined by Apostle Paul grow in the soul of the African." Said M. Dantes Bellegarde of Port-au-Prince, Haiti: "If this experiment of self-government [Haitian] fails, it is a blow to all the Negroes of the world." Said one F. E. Croly, U. S. student: "The fault is that the intelligent Negro does not feel that he is part of the common herd. The leadership of the Negro race is left too largely...
When Deems Taylor resigned as music critic of the New York World to compose the first really successful U. S. opera, The King's Henchman, he lifted his keen, stocky self from a platform of newspaper authority to a pinnacle of international fame. Ordinarily, the fortunates who are able to take such a stride, seldom retrace their steps. But, according to Mr. Taylor, "newspaper work is like drink. The only way for some to quit is to have left it alone in the first place." So he accepted the position of editor of Musical America, and introduced his regime last...
Chang Tso-lin, ontime "King of Bandits," Super-Tuchun of Manchuria, self-styled All Highest Grand Marshal of China, potent dictator of Northern China and as much of the South as the Nationalists and his own genrals will let him have, found time last week to exercise his political astuteness. Despite the fact that he is reported to be "worried to death" over Sun Chuan-fang's drive south to recapture his beloved Shanghai - beloved for the revenue it gave him, Marshal Chang published a mandate entitled "The Law for the Protection of Human Rights...