Word: temperance
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...have been turned out in the cloakrooms. All are asleep. You go in the dark room and wake up a Senator to come in and vote out of that kind of an atmosphere, on a close vote like this, and the vote is likely to be decided on human temper. A man is likely to wake up and holler 'No' when he means 'Yes,' or 'Yes' when he means 'No.' It does not give him time to think...
National Combination. The new Cabinet announced by Prime Minister Baldwin was of interest chiefly in terms of the same old National Government personalities reshuffled to meet their personal idiosyncrasies, political expedience and the public temper...
...started a fist fight. Nationalists in the crowd suddenly began to shout: "Put Weygand in Power! Weygand for France!" His admirers nearly tore for the clothes off the little soldier, forced police to hustle him to safety. It was a small but significant sample of France's current temper. Across the river in the Palais Bourbon porters were filling all the inkwells and placing a large brass dinner bell on the Speaker's desk, for the most powerful, least responsible legislative body in the world, the Chamber of Deputies, was about to meet. Every Frenchman knew what they...
...managed the case thereafter, the woman exhibited better sense after the operation than ever before-her intelligence tests prove her an average U. S. adult. Her memory for recent events is excellent, for remote events remarkable. She now does more work, with less fatigue, worries less, has a better temper. She no longer fidgets. She makes decisions with no hesitation, walks directly to a destination without window-shopping or other procrastination. She is pious, attends church regularly. Her husband says she has developed "feelings of superiority...
First of all there is the career of the pure scholar. In this field he has the greatest opportunity for creative work in the Fine Arts without having to temper his activities to the requirements of his surroundings. But naturally there is very little chance of making such a career self-supporting. In some way his work has to be endowed either by the foundations or through private subsidy. Such support is more than difficult to obtain and rarely given over any long period of time. Usually a compromise has to be made and so the pure scholar devotes...