Word: badness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...President's message is bad as to the substance of the policy laid down for this particular case.- (a) War between England and the United States would be an immeasurable calamity: Boston Herald, Dec. 19, 1895; Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress...
...President's message is bad as to its manner of laying down the policy for this particular case.- (a) Risk of war is unnecessarily increased.- (1) Threat of war in advance of commission's finding served no purpose.- (x) War could have been threatened after the finding: A. Carnegie in No. Am. Rev. Vol. 162 p. 135 (Feb. 1896).- (2) Threat of war in advance made peacable accommodation more difficult.- (x) Made it harder for England to yield: C. F. Adams in Boston Herald, Jan. 12, 1896; Harper's Weekly, Dec. 28, 1895, p. 1232; ibid...
...into progress. As Emerson says, each of the two makes a good half but a poor whole. On the one hand excessive conservatism is a mere negation; on the other, excessive radicalism recklessly destroys the virtue of healthly discipline and blots out the good of the past with its bad. The one maintains established evil; the other destroys established good...
...will be treated in the present course of lectures. It the announcement that the subject was to be "Bimetallism Since the Discovery of America," you will be altogether discouraged when told that the present lecture goes back to the foundation of the world. But the reality is not so bad as the sound; for although there is a wealth of allusions, there is little in the elasical literature of antiquity that bears importantly upon the subject. The Hebrew Scriptures abound in these allusiouns. Abraham paid the children of Heth four hundred shekels of silver of the cave of Machpelah...
...from satisfactory. Three times now in succession Harvard has been obliged to yield first place to an old rival, and last spring saw the University of Pennsylvania step into second place. Harvard third, even though the third is a close one, does not sound well. Second was bad enough, and nothing but first again can bring entire content...