Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aren't so sure but what the undergraduates win the first decision for sobriety and realism. A nation should be able to look to its intellectual and spiritual leaders for moderating counsel to support, not destroy the neutral temper of a great nation, bent on staying at peace. We are inclined to agree with the Crimson that there have been notable failures in this respect. . . . We believe that the direct interest of the undergraduates makes them equal in importance as a pressure group to their teachers, for all their prestige. Boston Transcript...
However, if Herr Hitler should lose his temper over these dilatory tactics, if the presence of French troops on German soil should suddenly strike him as intolerable, if he should decide to solve a tactical problem by restoring order in The Netherlands, or protecting a minority in Luxembourg, then Sam would quickly be prevailed upon to pick up his musket...
...drive Adolf Hitler and Hitlerism from the world. He defined these aims well before World War II began, when many thought that in foretelling the Crisis and its ripening into war, he was whistling for the wind. More eloquent than any poll of the public temper last week was the conclusion of Franklin Roosevelt that he could not prudently restate his ends. Up to last week he had accompanied them with assurances of his hope and belief that the U. S. could stay out of war. Sensitive to a nation sensitized by the fact of war, he conveyed one impression...
...members, and full membership is earned by sending in for tokens of every product Uncle Don plugs. One season he plugged 14, and full-fledged members eventually cost their parents a pretty penny. But parents tolerate him because he inveighs against such social errors as nail biting, gulping, temper, socking, preaches a series of corrective little stories involving two hypothetical and unruly tikes named Willapuss-Wallapuss and Suzan-Beduzin. Somehow all this is as beguiling to children as bubblegum...
...Amytis' gift of curiosity," says Author Riding, "is one thing to remember about her; and her placidity of temper is another. . . . Their combination made her a sensible woman." But particularly the thing to remember about her, implies Author Riding, is that she was a good woman because Cyrus was a good husband...