Word: decentered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
South of the Mason-Dixon Line, peculiar problems present themselves. Neither property values or income levels are sufficient to raise adequate funds for decent schools. Mississippi, for example, spends 3.4 percent of its income for education as compared to New York's 2.5 percent. But in the former this adds up to only $400 per schoolroom per year, as opposed to $4000 for the same use in the Empire State. And the southern dual school system, with separate buildings and expensive duplication because of Jim Crow, adds to the difficulty. Clearly, many of these states cannot afford good schools...
...gentleman is that Liberalism is dying, allegedly because such Liberalism requires a moral basis which it is unable to create or maintain. This is absolutely false. The ideas of goodness in the broader sense are not the exclusive property of, or even result of, religion. The basic ideas of decent and cooperative behavior are but the inevitable product of intelligent people who wish to live together in harmony...
...stones were hurled, no bombs thrown, no swaggering men with lightning-flash shoulder patches patrolled the district. The decent, middle-class people of west Hollywood would have been shocked at such tactics. But they had their...
...Angeles, Whodunit Authoress Craig Rice (Home Sweet Homicide) was sued for divorce by her fourth husband, Writer Lawrence Lipton. Said Lipton: "It was murder. I could never get a decent night's sleep...
...About a third of the high-school population is not at home with print, and is unable to get the meaning from reasonably difficult books. . . . Youth feeds on the violence of the comics; idolizes speed, memorizes swing verses almost by osmosis, yet cannot quote a line of decent poetry...