Word: blight
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...need not worry about giving foreign immigrants the opportunity to derive the benefits of universal military service. They have had that precious privilege in Europe for years and it has been one of the things that has caused people to come to the United States, hitherto free from the blight of Europe...
...departure, from which much pleasure will come when more hands than one join is its production. The book reviews are below the Monthly's average. They do not touch books worth review, and they are inconclusive as well as over-lengthy. One editorial sets squarely before the University the blight which the Freshman dormitories threaten--a College of mob-driven athletics and "class spirit." The other, under the rather surprising through flattering title, "Shall Harvard Menace Neutrality?" puts that reputed difficulty before us about as clearly as such an absurd possibility can be demonstrated...
...power of faith over the lack of it,--that is the vital seed from which, under the strong, sure treatment of Augustus Thomas, springs a drama of race and religion, of prejudice and sacrifice, of hate that would blight and love that can and will save and atone. This drama, the noblest and most intensely provocative of hard thinking that Boston has seen for many days, is called "As a Man Thinks". Into an apparently hopeless turmoil of sin and mental suffering which comes from the faithlessness of a husband and his suspicion of the faithlessness of his wife, into...