Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...equality, but, says President Hibben, "the spirit of a true aristocracy of service should characterize all who, through the privileges of university training, have been particularly equipped in mind and in character for the duties of citizenship." The familiar phrase "noblesse oblige" implies that there is for those of superior calibre, those who have had opportunities greater than the average, a code which exacts loftier conduct than the ordinary code requires...
...interpretation of the scheme in general seem in danger of falling into the error of trying to force the benefits of the plan as they see them down the throats of the unsuspecting students. Excessive attachment for the English system of education and a feeling that it is definitely superior to that in force at Harvard, for example, is leading some of the masters to believe that they can graft this fruit on to a tree of purely native growth. Again there is the danger that the new relations between faculty and student body may give rise to a feeling...
...Atlanta, Ga., birthplace of the (second) Ku Klux Klan and Order of the Supreme Kingdom, there came into being an "American Facist [sic] Association and Order of Black Shirts." Its organizers were Holt J. Gewinner and Joseph Wood, onetime Klan candidate for governor. In petitioning the Fulton County Superior Court for a charter (not yet granted) the association claimed its purposes were "white supremacy," "charity," "patriotism" and assistance to members in finding jobs. Dues: $1. The Black Shirts prepared to run Negroes out of jobs, replace them with unemployed "Facist" members. Atlanta stores advertised black shirts at reduced rates...
...chemist, he is entirely at home in physics, astronomy, architecture, politics. Many business practices owe their origin to him. His phenomenal memory recalls with equal ease the make of his first printing press, the dimensions of his early laboratory, scientific facts pertaining to his many inventions, and every superior funny story anyone has told...
...America, widow of the late New York utilities Tycoon, was reported in the New York World as having lately talked with Pope Pius XI about entering a European convent to take a nun's novitiate, then founding a religious order of her own and becoming its mother superior. "Preposterous!" said Mrs. Brady's sister, Mrs. John Cavanagh of Norwalk, Conn. "A lie and sheer nonsense!" announced Mrs. Brady's secretary in London...