Word: strength
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this case, the objection voiced in the House of Lords over what will happen to the future generation is valid. Sax stated. It would pose a dangerous problem to any nation. Harmful recessive traits would begin to appear in the succeeding generations, creating a general decline in the strength of the nation...
...they are in college. Four years spent in an insulated nursery will produce gullible innocents, not tough-minded realists who know what they believe because they have faced the enemies of their beliefs . . . We have confidence in the maturity and intelligence of Harvard students. We have confidence in the strength . . . of American democracy. There is no danger from an open communist which is half so great as the danger from those who would destroy freedom in the name of freedom. These decadent descendants of Jefferson and Lincoln reveal their lack of faith in American ideals and in Americans. If Harvard...
They saved their strength by yielding the floor to a pair of helpful Republicans who wanted to sound off on pressing irrelevancies. New Hampshire's Styles Bridges wanted to deplore the wastefulness of such Government publications as Eliminating Bats from Buildings, Fleas of North America, etc. Senator Bridges talked almost three hours...
Ulcerated Hearts. Confess and do penance as they will, they can neither undo their crime nor heal the ulcers in their hearts; for, says Author Green, the consequences of a crime of weakness are as terrible as those of a crime of strength. A fire in Pelancey's shop destroys them: "They spoke to each other, incoherently . . . until the very last moment of life, holding firmly to each other as they lay there beneath the beams...
Soviet Art, official organ of the Soviet Arts Committee, last week published an exposé of conditions under the big top. "Only by fully unmasking ... in the arenas of Soviet circuses alien bourgeois tendencies can Soviet circus art achieve a new renaissance and become a genuine expression of the strength of our great fatherland," the article said. Circus managers were attacked for "trying to replace the healthy Soviet circus, with its ideology, optimism and purposefulness, with empty, formalistic imitations...