Word: strivings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adler always kept remembering how humbled and humiliated he had felt as a child. His family had been poor. He had been small, nervous, frequently ill, had resented his schoolmates' bullyragging. As with many another bantam, power became his goal, intellect his tool. He devised a theory: "The striving for superiority and the sense of inferiority go together in every human being. We strive because we feel inferior, and we overcome our feeling of inferiority by successful striving...
Continuing, Mr. Farmer states that Yale will continue to strive for winning teams, and that no team should be handicapped by want of proper training. In order to obtain the best results in the building of character, Yale, moreover, will be willing to pay the men who furnish this instruction as well as the building up of good sportsmanship, and hopes eventually to have them members of the regular university staff...
...doctrine behind both words is a concept of society in which the State would own all means of production and private, or "capitalistic," profit would be eliminated. Regrettable is the extreme looseness of meaning which: 1) permits James Ramsay MacDonald to call himself a "Socialist," although he does not strive for State ownership of the means of production; and 2) permits Josef Stalin to be known as a "Communist," although he recently restored to Russian peasants the right of private trade with its inevitable capitalistic profits (TIME...
...President de Valera frankly exposed at No. 10 his intention to strive for a union of Northern Ireland and the Free State "into what would be called, understood and accepted as a republic...
...National Assembly dropped blank ballots into the ornate, Napoleonic urn. Cried President Lebrun of France, soon after his election: "In the most ambitious dreams of my childhood I never dared hope to attain to such heights. I am extremely proud of the confidence of the nation. ... I will strive to carry forward the exalted tradition set by President Doumer...