Word: splendide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is no need to give way to anxiety, certainly no ground whatever to despair. No one is going to commit this nation to a Machiavellian philosophy just because in a splendid achievement there has been some incidental moral confusion. . . . For the greater action is so sound, and so wholesome at its core that it will transcend the rest, and it will generate a moral energy which will sweep away, like a clean wind, the dusty leaves of sophistry...
Since before Pearl Harbor I have served with troops from all parts of America, including men of German, Italian and Japanese extraction. . . . Nisei Japanese have these qualities which make them splendid soldiers, worthy of the uniform they wear...
...past five years. (Suspicious neighbors who thought she was getting rid of hot loot got her investigated by police last February.) The diva decided to take the animal home, install it in temperature-controlled luxury. For a wild dog the molasses-colored mongrel had an even disposition, a splendid coat. Likely cause for these genteel qualities was the Hempel diet: good beef, carrots, melba toast, cod-liver oil, and sometimes mineral...
...think this would be splendid and the least that we Americans could do to offer such an award and I should like to head the list...
...memorial to "those who fought and died to preserve the Union." "The Delta," a triangular shaped piece of land which served as training grounds for the student regiments during the war, was selected as a fitting site. Four years later, amid a festive gathering of Harvard's sons the splendid dedication service took place. Oliver Wendell Holmes was there. He had written a stirring dedication hymn for the occasion. In eloquent verses he expressed the hopes of its builders...