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Word: characterizations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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The nature of the educational problem which Mr. Pettee hints at is enlarged on by Harvard's Professor Robert Ulich in a chapter on "Constructive Education" in which he calls for a school system which will "develop in its pupils initiative and ethical character." Dartmouth's Professor Rosenstock-Huessy vaguely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKSHELF | 11/19/1940 | See Source »

But character building and job training will not provide for America's four million unemployed young people "the sense of pride in fruitful work." Consequently the majority of the contributors to "American Youth" see the necessity for some form of voluntary work camp programe--possibly an enlarged C.C.C. with "a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKSHELF | 11/19/1940 | See Source »

Mary Ann (later Marian) Evans (later George Eliot) was one of the homeliest women who ever wrote a first-rate English novel. She was also one of the most affectionate. For many years she looked for a man who would prefer character to beauty and in Publisher John Chapman she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. Chapman's Ladies | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...importance. . . O that we could inspire the rising generation around us with a scnse of the importance and worth of time, and the certainty that every action of every day helps to fix a character for eternity." It is this inherited spirit of the noble dignity of man that characterizes the entire life of C.N.G...

Author: By M. F. E., | Title: ON THE SHELF | 11/13/1940 | See Source »

Hague: "You can't . . . put any filth on me. The man doesn't live who dares do that. The man doesn't live who can put a finger on my moral character. He don't live. Or on my political character. He don't live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Stentorian Dialogue | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

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