Word: alterity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sometimes, in order to avoid a misfit, the educational system tries to alter the size of the student's neck. Don't let them try this on you. You can always pick up a shirt, but you will never be able to get another neck...
...dictatorships. Said the authors: "Should they [the democracies] be on the eve of defeat, the square question would be presented, whether to aid them by methods no longer short of war, using them as our outlying defense posts; or whether to let them be beaten, treble our navy, radically alter our economic system, and meet the ultimate issue between us and the dictatorships bent on dominating the world.'' While Franklin Roosevelt has vowed to send abroad no U. S. troops-for which there is no military need-he has said nothing about sending the U. S. Navy...
...from the masses. The generation of Britain's show-running aristocracy which should now be in the saddle is pushing up poppies in Flanders fields. Not even sandy Winston Churchill's latest whistling in the dark ("we are certainly by no means inclined to shrink") could alter the big fact that Britain's owning classes were resigned to the prospect of financial ruin as a result of their second world war in 25 years, that its press was on the whole supinely uncritical (Premier Molotov's speech was even interpreted as "Russia Joins Neutrals"), and that...
Class of 1941: Gerald M. Alter, Mason City, Ia.; Maurice S. Cohen, Winthrop; Thomas J. Duffield Jr., Cambridge; William F. Ketchum, Evanston, Ill.; William H. Kruskal, New Rochelle...
What was cocky Charlie Coughlin up to now? Guarded statements to the press, by Detroit archdiocesan officials, revealed that Father Coughlin's speeches had long been passed upon by a special archdiocesan censorship committee. Possibly, said the Detroit archdiocesan chancellor, Father Coughlin had declined to alter last Sunday's speech in accordance with the censors' suggestions...