Word: selfe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Speaks. Bursting with self-confidence, the President said that he thought the proposed cloture rule should be even more drastic than the one Russell Long & Co. were talking down. He said he would favor applying cloture by a simple majority vote. Under such a rule, 25 Senators (a simple majority of a functioning quorum of 49) would be able to end a Senate debate...
...They deplore the fact that official Washington society is made up of small-town politicians, uninteresting businessmen, journalists, and wives who wear the same dress three or four times. Embassies used to be consecrated ground for uninhibited splendor-but no longer. Now host and guest alike feel a little self-conscious about lavish suppers when the U.S. is doling out aid to the ambassador's hungry nation...
...with one or more assignments asking the student to write about his personal experience. This is one source of content for any writer, and in my judgment, a course in English composition is not doing its job if it does not lay on the student the duty of some self-scrutiny. If the student meets this opportunity by writing inconsequential papers typified by your imaginary subject, "What I Did This Summer," I think the student must be held largely responsible for this particular failure in education...
Nevertheless, Kalaupapa, operated for the last 84 years as a self-supporting isolation colony, has fallen behind the times. Hawaii's bumbling Governor Ingram M. Stainback, onetime lawyer from Tennessee, now calls it "a blot upon Hawaii's good name." Last week he asked the Territorial Legislature to erase the blot by closing out the colony at Kalaupapa. There are now only 248 patients there; at the peak, in 1890, there were 1,100. Compulsory segregation of leprosy patients at Kalaupapa is, said Governor Stainback, "an expensive and useless cruelty ... a survival of a dark age of ignorance...
Jordan explained that Dave Smith is only 50 percent his normal self because of an arm injury, which has limited his practice time as well as hampering his match performances...