Word: ideals
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...Chamberlain is certain to win unless he displays cultural interests and a knowledge of other things than the party game before polling day. ... He is probably the ideal...
...issue was turned aside. Bishop Gailor said that some of the churches in the Council were "hindering the cause of Christ." Bishop Johnson called the Federal Council a "visionary experiment." Bishop Brent was left with his burning emotions, his rejected ideal...
...American looked upon this country and said: "It is ideal." He was Harvey S. Firestone, President of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. He had Edwin Barclay, Secretary of State of Liberia, go to the U. S. and together they drew up a pact which was satisfactory to the U. S. Department of State...
...student must be led, and the lead must be attractive. If the classroom, the lecture, and the conference have not the vigor of the world of sport, one cannot condemn youth for choosing the latter. The educator who would build character, build the wholeness which has been an ideal ever since the Greeks first demonstrated it, must not content himself with thwarting natural tendencies. He must divert those tendencies into the most effective channels...
...getting and boob bumbing? Surely there is a long felt want there." This is Mr. Mencken's latest dictum. Once again the modern Machiavell speaks the credo he has long assumed. Not a treatise which will lift the ethics of the profession of politics into the realm of the ideal, which will make of the gentlemen at Washington the "Guardians" of the state, but a textbook of bunkum and blither, a composite of the formulae of all the successful political Barnums of American history--that, and that alone, is the desire of the garrulous editor of the American Mercury...