Word: unafraidness
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Purpose of the Prize as revealed in President Conant's annual report of last year was to create through appreciation of American history "a common denominator among educated men which would enable them to face the future united and unafraid...
...Emerson Lees, onetime WPA Airport & Airways assistant director who joined the Maritime Commission eleven months ago, and to Aeronautical Adviser Grover Cleveland Loening, under whose direct supervision the report was drawn up. Adviser Loening, 49, appointed to the Commission six months ago, is a rich, dapper socialite, honest and unafraid of officialdom. A life-long aviation enthusiast, and manufacturer of the world's first successful amphibian, he said two years ago in his book Our Wings Grow Faster: "The handwriting is on the walls for the steamship lines. ... At 500 m.p.h., 50,000 ft. above the ocean . . . this...
Since that memorable oration, we have noticed a solitary, lonesome figure, bundled in sweaters, running down the river every afternoon, rebuffed, but unafraid...
...History thus is twice blest. It helps the individual to grow in wisdom after he leaves the Yard and it gives the public an ever growing appreciation of our past that might be the "common denominator among educated men which would enable them to face the future united and unafraid...
...every college graduate to have a knowledge of the cultural history of the United States in the broadest sense of the term. . . . A true appreciation of this country's past might be the common denominator among educated men which would enable them to face the future united and unafraid...