Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Self-evident home defense is the only excuse...
...Germans did not think Herr Hitler's speech very funny, however. In it they discovered that Herr Hitler was not just repeating the by now tiresome tirade against the Treaty of Versailles and explaining anew his championing of "self-determination," but obliquely announcing new principles of German foreign policy and international conduct...
Promotion. Like all world's fairs, this is a business venture, a supposedly self-supporting promotion stunt. Few such stunts actually break even. The Century of Progress did manage to net $702,171, but that was a peewee return on the $47,000,000 investment (of which $10,000,000 was put up by the fair's promoters and recovered in full). The real return was an estimated $700,000,000 in extra business it drew to Chicago...
Captain Hornblower has no actual prototype, though he somewhat resembles Admiral Nelson. A tall, slightly paunchy sea dog with thinning hair, Hornblower is a highstrung, self-doubting man who gets seasick at the start of a cruise, worries about losing his job, goes clammy at the start of a fight, pales at the sight of blood, has the devil's own time keeping his reputation for imperturbability...
Certainly neither you nor I, nor any other self-respecting Harvard student would be happy to see our faculty modeling its lectures after the pattern of the tutoring school's effective evening "cream," yet such would be the result if the remarks in your editorial were to be followed out logically. No, I hardly think that an outstanding faculty like that of our University could be interested in merely training people to answer certain specific questions culled from examinations of the past...