Word: bearings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...would be over. The Allies, though still supreme on the sea, would be unable to attack the enemy at any point, and so, baffled, must acknowledge defeat. Temporary as this would be, for the world can never see a victorious Germany as long as men exist to bear the fight, nevertheless, years more of bitter struggle and destruction would surely follow before we could ever retrace our steps to even the point where...
...theme, too, was remedy and not defect. I had aimed to give, in the "Illustrated," a bit of advice that seems sometimes to have helped young men when they face that troublesome problem of choosing a life career. In very condensed form that advice is, to bear in mind that those interests and proclivities which one acquired spontaneously as a boy, outside of the schoolroom, and which one has more or less kept up or more or less neglected during the more exacting years of high-school and college, that those proclivities are still a part of oneself. They...
...national energy. Questions of money, finance, industry, thrift, taxes, war loans, ships, food, labor,--in fact, every special question is really a part of that great question, and must be solved with reference to it. We must manage some way to redirect our national energy and bring it to bear upon the purpose of the war rather than upon the multifarious purposes of peace. The first question which we must ask regarding every question of public policy, however detailed it may be, is: How will it affect the redistribution of the national energy? Will it, or will it not, enable...
...have sacrificed their lives is steadily and rapidly growing. We cannot read the University's roll of honor without that intense and personal sorrow which alone can make us fully realize the great duties we will have to perform, and the great sacrifices we shall have to bear...
When we turn to the German people, we observe the same intolerance. The press is absolutely and unqualifiedly opposed to anything which may be proposed from that source. It refuses all consideration for those things which bear the Imperial stamp. Now we offer no brief for the German nation. We have found in their offers no basis for a just peace. We maintain the principle that they as yet lack the good faith which is so essential to the final settlement. Yet it seems that such an intolerant attitude is the blindness of a superficial patriotism. Only by earnestly watching...