Word: self
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department released a note of protest to the Nationalist government. It denounced the shelling as "unjustifiable and contrary to the law and practice of nations," and "requested" that the Chinese government issue orders that such incidents did not recur. If face meant some show of consistency, firmness and healthy self-respect, it was an Oriental concept that might be difficult to achieve, but was long overdue in U.S. policy in Asia...
After Sunday's victory, all he had to worry about (besides another game with the New York Giants) was next fortnight's championship playoff with the league's Western Division winners. Greasy was reasonably self-assured. Said he: "I haven't got 30 players. I have 30 coaches. Why not? They're smart fellows; they all went to college...
...alarming spectacle, he continues, to find scholars who have a genuine devotion to some "pure" subject (medieval art, for example) hounded by the feeling that they must pay the price for their "wicked self-indulgence" by participating in a "useful activity" which they may find distasteful. "Unless people do what they do because they like doing it, the results of their work are sterile...
...Professor Gordon W. Allport, has limited its zealots to sensible and reasonable procedures. Last week one misguided undergraduate got a quantity of polls from his victims in envelopes that were carefully numbered under the stamps, although the poll was termed "anonymous" by its author. Professor Allport has burned these self-incriminating documents-some students had expressed Communist views-and has sent letters of apology to all recipients...
Fletcher Cooke discussed the achievement of self-government in large portions of Asia and Africa, the present and past colonial policy of Great Britain, and aspects of the UN decisions on trusteeships and non-self-governing colonies...