Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy Department there were great buzzings about how President Coolidge would now, surely, see to it that Congress soon passes a cruiser-building bill, if only to show France and England that U. S. naval policy is independent, self-respecting...
Bubbling with conceit and excitement, Ganna Walska revealed her true self, a feat which Harold McCormick has never been able to achieve, to reporters in Chicago. "My object in this world," she said, "is to think new thoughts...
...about The Founder. They know that at the age of six he teased and teased until his shoemaker father whittled him out a tiny last on which with boyish zeal he pegged toy shoes. At 18 the Founder had saved 400 kronen ($80), the fruit of hard pegging and self denial. Also his sister Anna and his brother Anthony (now dead) had each saved 400 kronen, so runs the legend. Thereupon, in 1894, with a total capital of $240, the three Bat'as founded their own small shoe factory...
...Self-made" and no University man, Thomas Bat'a took the next best course by marrying the daughter of a university professor...
...More of the same, Hunger Fighters is a trustworthy though ebullient account of certain other men of science, unappreciated breeders of sturdy grain, students of cattle diseases, discoverers of fashionable vitamins. If the author coyly attributes an exasperated scientist with a few cusswords, or jazzes his pages with other self-conscious slang, it is but in his honest endeavor to educate a sugar-coated public. He makes the best of the highspots: In stamping out the virulent hoof-and-mouth disease one inconspicuous scientist had millions of cattle killed and buried, to the funeral dirge of their owners' vituperations...