Word: ulterior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their perpetual obligation to present a balanced and unbiased and intelligible picture of human affairs day by day. . . . Editorial pages should be analyzed for clarity and breadth of mind; financial pages for the general accuracy of the gobbledegook they use for English; columnists for evidence of hardened minds or ulterior influences...
Regardless of the Elis' ulterior-motivated publicity about the "experienced Harvards" and the "neophyte Yales," Bolles had only two former Varsity men in the boat when they defeated Princeton and M.I.T. on the Charles in their first race last April. He fretted about their inexperience and about the adverse weather which kept them from coming down to a good rowing weight...
...everything but still capable of being undermined, changed, improved, or come at in some hitherto undreamed-of-way-even by so humble a creature as himself, an inventor-and used as a chained force, if only one knew how. ... He had become conscious of anterior as well as ulterior forces and immensities and fathomless wells of wisdom and energy, and had enslaved a minute portion of them, that was all. But not here! Oh, no. Later...
...Union's own lack of material progress; 2) hostility toward the Western world, as personified by the secret police and the party bureaucracy (whose ill will is so violent that it is hard to believe that they are sincere. The suspicion is inevitable that their hostility serves some ulterior purposes). But the aggressiveness of the anti-U.S. elements (in Russia) will not lead automatically to war because the Russians believe that at the moment the U.S. is superior economically, politically, and militarily. U.S. policy should be to keep Russia in that state of mind. There...
They are the uncompromising writers. As they grow up, they go on looking at people and things as they did when they were children, with a certain ulterior fixity of attention. The nervous and jovial object in the living room is Uncle Alfred, yes; but they cannot let it go at that; neither can they stop trying to define other things they see and feel. They are the writers who are born artists, and early in life this is apt to be a troublesome condition. It is a fact that they might write something exciting, one day to be regarded...