Word: self
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since there was much honest disagreement as to the merits of the elective and appointive systems, there was provision that after three years the Council should review itself and its constitution. The Council has now arranged to do this: it has in fact outdone itself in self-analysis by appointing two committees to cover the ground...
...everything. Cried the newspaper Nasional: "We demand an integral and undivided independence. But what do we see today? [New Guinea] was pawned for one year . . . America is going to defend itself against Communism, and Indonesia is on its way to be made the place for America's self-defense...
...Dutch army, who had been conscripted for unpopular service in a steaming, tropical land. Last week the sides of Dutch army trucks, filled with tall blond soldiers, bore chalked signs like: Tabeh, we gaan de rommel verlaten (Goodbye, we're pulling out of this mess) and Doe het self maar verder. Gaan naar moeder (Do it yourself. We're going home to mother...
...hope that we will never again have an outstanding football team," said President Robert Gannon of Fordham University two years ago. Under his rigid de-emphasis program, the once-powerful Ram shrank to an emaciated shadow of its old self. Then Father Gannon left Fordham...
...self-made Millionaire Peter Cooper opened a free school in what was then midtown Manhattan to "improve and elevate the working classes of the City of New York" and to be "forever devoted to the advancement of science and art, in their application to the varied and useful purposes of life...