Word: uprightness
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...House, President von Hindenburg's comfortable, unpretentious summer home in Neudeck, East Prussia a solemn assemblage gathered last week. There was old Paul, grimly upright in his chair; Chancellor Franz von Papen, looking more like a startled police dog than, usual; bald, ever smiling Defense Minister von Schleicher; a few assistants. Gravely the old Field Marshal reached for a pen and signed a document which, informed observers believe, had been drawn up the week that Chancellor von Papen took office...
...uses the information to pry himself, as a clerk at $7.50 a week, into Handback's store. Straight way he makes friends with the Negroes and poor whites, by selling 16-oz. pounds of goods instead of the customary twelve. Soon he has the reputation of being the most upright man in town...
...whites and Negroes, of Egyptians and Slavs (he is a Bohemian), of peoples in Peru, Mexico, Asia, of little understood midgets. A small cabinet, labeled tetrapodisis and still only meagrely filled, contains the case histories of children who ambled, like little animals, on hands and feet before they walked upright (TIME, Jan. 6 & Jan. 27, 1930). The "walking-on-all-fours" records form the nucleus of a systematic study of the primordial habits of human infants which Dr. Hrdlicka has begun...
Stigmatizing the American people as simple and unsophisticated because they put their trust in an unsuccessful school system. Dr. George Sylvester Counts attacks the major weaknesses of modern educational methods in the current New Republic. His target is the downright hypocrisy of pedagogical institution, which would be too upright. The way in which the indecisive, blind policy of the public schools turns out a product highly uneducated is convincingly set forth. Dr. Counts takes as his thesis the faults of the schools which would straddle every question, be all things to all men, a course which emasculates their powers...
...Street sidewalk was new to him. Most grievously was he insulted to see in print for all the world to read, how he, Carlos Morales, had slipped on such ice, crashed with a mighty thud, required the assistance of four men to hoist him upright again...