Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself. Two years ago he took on his job at a few hours' notice, having expected to play a quiet younger brother role to Brother Edward all his life. Pressmen who followed him around the long loop from Quebec to Halifax were struck by the added poise and self-confidence that George drew from the ordeal. Filled with new pride in their King & Queen, Britons were preparing to give them a monster welcome-with millions lining the railroad right-of-way to London -calculated to top anything the Yankees did for their sovereigns...
...York State's Labor Relations Board declared last week in a formal complaint that the Ray E. Dunlap Enterprises at the New York World's Fair had "intimidated, coerced and warned its employes not to exercise their rights of self-organization for collective bargaining." The employes: 17 itinerant guess-your-weight artists. They included Guesser Jack A. Whyte and his sons Frank and Clifford, who guessed that they could get away with forming a union, were fired for their error...
...counting up the strength of sides, military men talk about divisions, the basic, more or less self-contained units which generals add or subtract from armies. In fact divisions figure in their calculations as building blocks figure in the architectural dreams of children. Divisions are only roughly equal in size and strength-in France and Russia there are 18,000 men to a division, in Germany, 15,200; in Poland and England, 12,000. Mechanized divisions are even smaller, but their strength is computed in terms of tanks, armored cars, machine-guns...
...universities, including Columbia, and has received a dozen medals and special awards for achievement. She is the only woman ever to have addressed the Union League Club, the Harvard Club of New York, the National Association of Manufacturers and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. She is prodigiously informed, self-confident and inconsistent...
...senior is a superman, or so he will read. He has never walked alone along the Charles, never indulged in bull sessions. He has banished the club man, the "C man" from Harvard. He is not the self-indulgent romantic his elder brother was; he is a social realist. Above all he is never indifferent and he thinks of himself only in terms of society as a whole. He is a socialist's dream-child. He bears a striking affinity to the authors of the article their hearts cross the left place...