Word: decentered
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...donation to a deserving charity. . . . You are not being asked to fight for Britain with your factories and your skill just because you love the English. For all I know, you don't. You are really being asked to fight, as we are fighting in Australia, for the decent, suffering, ordinary people. . . . The cry going out for material is a tremendous challenge to the industrial genius of the United States. All the world knows you can do it if you put your mind to it. The question is, how quickly can you get going...
...Harvard rooter gets up and cheers when a Yale man gets kicked in the groin. But that's exactly the attitude war breeds. I'm convinced that we in the United States have a great opportunity to take some of the stigma away from the war by doing something decent at the same time...
...usually manage to "take things in my stride," but your cover picture of Hitler this week moves me to speak. TIME is very definitely my favorite magazine. However, with so many fine, decent and worth-while individuals to choose from, couldn't you find a more worthy subject...
...athletic committee will be set up, consisting of the captains of the major and minor sports. Their function will include the running of the various social activities of the Club, investigation into athletic affairs which may be necessary from time to time, ensuring that the working athlete has a decent job and is getting three square meals a day, and acting more or less as a Student Council for sports...
...characters are these: Mrs. Walton, the mother of Gracia and Marge; Gracia and Tom Wilson, her husband; and Marge, who, as the book opens, is being married to John Graves, a man much older than she. Of this group, only Tom Wilson is a normal and decent person. Mrs. Walton is a grown-up baby; Marge, who has long pursued a young aviator, David Roberts, is pathetically lustful; Gracia is a self-indulgent, sentimentalist, and John Graves is a washed-out pedagogue. Also present are Kate Harris, a scientific spinster of amorous regard, and Murray Bartlett, romantically in love with...