Word: blot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more than a generation American statesmanship has persistently striven to avoid, ignore or forget an inconsistency in our American institution whose existence is a blot upon our national honor the criminal practice of lynching. Outbreaks like that which held the city of Omaha, Nebraska, in a reign of terror for nine hours, culminating in the felling of one citizen, the serious injury of at least two others, an unsuccessful attempt to lynch the Mayor of the City, and the successful lynching of a prisoner charged with a heinous crime,--are but the eruptive symptoms of a disease which has eaten...
...This war, I hope, is going to end the power of force in the world, but it is not going to end time nor blot out the human race. The future is going to demand leadership as the past has demanded it. Young men who have the opportunity to obtain liberal education should not, through more patriotic feelings and because they are fearful that somebody will allude to them as slackers, drop this training and rush indiscriminately into the army...
...destruction. As regards the present there seems little choice. In the long run, however, it behooves the Dutch to brave the risk of opposition. A crushed Holland will in the end find liberation. A Germanized Holland will ingloriously terminate a great page of history and will leave a blot upon the Dutch name which nothing in the future can ever erase...
...afternoon was worthy of the highest commendation. The Unit was organized but two months ago, and has been drilling under arms only a little over one month, yet in practically every movement the formations were executed with the snap and precision that usually comes of longer training. The only blot on an otherwise impressive review was the small army of obnoxious street urchins who persisted in making themselves conspicuously objectionable. Captain Cordier and his officers are to be congratulated, for the splendid showing made yesterday augurs well for the efficiency of the Unit after three months of intensive training...
...Senior Class elections held during the last two weeks have been a blot on the record of the Class of 1917 and a disgrace to Harvard College. For a long period of years the most important of undergraduate elections have maintained a tone of dignity and have been naturally free of clashes resulting from childish suspicions of unfair nominations...