Word: among
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...above all, I am concerned about the station of my country among nations and that station, I hold, will be irretrievably impaired if Woodrow Wilson retains his seat in Washington. His foreign policy has been puerile, spasmodic and spineless. Hughes can do no worse. I am sure he will do far better, his whole past record has been one of steadfast and manly adherence to principle...
...respect of a great nation. Had we brought England to her senses by so simple an expedient as the stoppage of munitions, we might have prevented the pilfering of our mails and an insolent dictation in our private affairs. Thanks to Wilson's compliancy, we may soon find ourselves among those peaceful but weak nations whose rights England has so generously undertaken to protect...
...limited range of contest, it may be affirmed without doubt that interest in the success of the chess team has been subordinated to a less intellectual interest in the successful issue of the annual football game with Yale. In many ways this attitude is unfortunate. Chess was in vogue among the polite countiers of Kubla Khan when the game of football was played with a rough stone, kicked about the wild British moors by half-naked tribesmen. And chess will remain a noble game when the last goal post has rotted and the last pigskin has burst. To make chess...
...Among the outstanding events of the last few weeks are to be noted the coming to power of Terauchi in Japan and the beginning of the long deferred struggle for the control of the oil wells and wheat fields of the lower Danube. That Germany was surprised by the entry of Rumania into the war was made clear by the removal of von Falkenhayn; whether von Hindenburg can rectify the error of his predecessor is doubtful. Yet it would seem already that there was little military foresight to accompany the Allies' successful political coup in the Balkans...
...poetry is full of much sound and fury, signifying, no, not nothing, but the usual state of unrest in youthful, bosoms. The verse of Mr. Norris is even graceful, if nothing else; his "August Night" is an example of free verse more sincere and pleasing than is often found among the poems of the High Priestess of vers libre. Mr. Putnam translates a Horatian ode into blank verse; since Horace does better in a swinging meter, an appreciative translation loses interest. Mr. Parson's free verse seems strained and unhappy; the idea of the same poet's "Art" deserves...