Word: uprightness
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...feeling in shutting TIME from my mind is purely one of relief. When you decide to be square, open, upright, scientific, rational and intelligent, assurances to that effect might elicit further interest...
...from fish to man, beginning with the fact that fish have hip-bones-rudimentary little rods unattached to the backbone but helping to support rear fins. Further improvement of the pelvis enabled amphibians to crawl, later animals to walk on all fours, humans and ortho-grade primates to walk upright. (Once possessors of good hips, whales reversed the process, lost most of the pelvis by taking to the water...
There the full splendor of the Widener Library is revealed. In an atmosphere of medieval picturesqueness sit hundreds of students at tables. Diligently they pore over their books, sitting stiffly upright, apparently prevented from relaxation by an overweening lust for knowledge. Like St. Simeon Stylites on his pillar, they have abandoned the comforts of this world in devotion to their ideal. Into this romantic dungeon the clangor and lurid brightness of external civilization do not penetrate...
...simple that he wondered why no one had thought of it before. He would pension off, at $200 per month, everyone who had reached the age of 60. Everyone, that is, who could prove that he or she had lived an upright life. That would discourage crime among the young. The pensioners must promise to work no more at any gainful or productive activity. That would open jobs for at least 8,000,000 young people.* The pensioners must be required to spend their doles within 30 days, in the U. S. That would put nearly...
Grace, the black sheep, is the stupid sixth child of an upright Scotch Presbyterian stone mason, whose wife died when Grace was 4. During school days Grace was "nervous" and "hard to manage." Men in the shoe factory, where she went to work at 16, found her easy prey. Promiscuity she did not realize was wrong. It was for her simply a means of getting to skating rinks, dance halls and cinemas. Grace and a friend named Edith had babies by casual sailors, gaily named their infants after each other. Grace's Edith, now 14, is beginning to show...