Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...answer to the question: "Are we ready for such a league?" one is tempted to reply: "We are as ready, as we ever shall be." For the truth is, that the world has reached that stage in political development at which it is proper to consider and put into practice a more rational means of settling international disputes than by the accustomed resort to arms. To the intellectually timid this seems such a daring and impetuous leap from the secure confines of precedent, over the chasm of unfathomable disaster, to the safe but somewhat precarious region...
...accomplish the purpose of the society, meetings shall be held from time to time, at which the most capable speakers available will interpret advanced thought on the subject, and endeavor to answer questions...
...steam and a million trumpets of brass--"We've just begun to fight!" Wild, discordant, terrible it was--it is, for it will ring in my ears henceforth--our tocsin! the tocsin of a hundred million people speaking one wrath and one purpose. It was, it is, our answer to the great gun in the woods of St. Gobain, shelling the churches on Good Friday. It stoops to no further mockery of argument or negotiation, yet says as definitely as human voice ever spoke "In the name of God and humanity, and of a just and permanent peace...
...stuffing into the thinking tank every shred of accredited information available. As university students, as mind specialists, we are the light of the world. If we fail in the attainment of understanding, upon whom is the world going to rely for brain power? There can be but one answer; it is axiomatic, in fact, an aphorism. We must not fail...
...coats are indispensable in Norway while they are far from necessary in the more temperate regions of the earth. A Hottentot considers the necessaries of civilization the height of luxury. When interpreted in this light there are few things of daily life which do not in some way answer important needs of society...