Word: asking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prescribed area does so at its own risk. At the same time she mitigates the rigor of this decree by providing a restricted sea-lane which may be used by American passenger vessels with impunity. This restriction constitutes, to be sure, a decided handicap; but one can only ask: "What regard has the British Admiralty shown, during the course of the war, for the rights or convenience of Americans on the seas? One naturally feels prompted to ask further: "If the loss of American lives, resulting from our insistence on entering the war-zone established around the sea-coast...
...though not an undergraduate ask for some of your space in which to discuss the platform of the Harvard Union for American Neutrality as presented in your issue of the 15th...
...setting fire to the house. Similarly, the first question for the American people to settle is, "What are the objects of a war?" They may be any of a myriad of things. Assume that the principal object is to defend American lives on the seas. Then we must ask, "Shall we set fire to the American mansion?" An answer depends on the answers given several other questions. Will the pig be roasted by burning the house, or burned to ashes? Is it necessary to burn the house or are there less destructive means of getting the pig roasted? How necessary...
...this imminent crisis which threatens so strongly our present status of peace, it is natural that men who love their country should ask what they can do. "Old men for council," but young men are impatient in council. They want swift action, a blow while the iron is in its whitest heat...
...would like to ask them two questions...