Word: boundlessness
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...ancestors bequeathed to us these great rivers, these boundless hills. Shall we murmur at them for giving us too great an inheritance? No, let us blame ourselves, their unworthy children, that we do not rise up, we do not exert ourselves, we are not willing to endure hardship...
...possessed the requisite imagination and pride to epitomize this development. Proudly is he Czechoslovakian, proudly a Slav. White-haired, rugged, in this man the strain is sharply apparent. His far-off ancestors surely looked on Svetovit, three-headed God of Plenty, symbolized by sun and bull. He has the boundless Slavic intensity and energy which make the leaders of his race indefatigable in labor, irresistible in personal charm. Years ago, in Paris, his posters of Sarah Bernhardt as Gismonda and La Samaritaine took him pyrotechnically to fame. They were graceful of line, palely florescent of decoration, for which...
...didacticism, but one who used as his text the Gospel story of the raising of Lazarus. He becomes rather the man who, having passed through a life of suffering and deprivation and a decade of hell in the Siberian katorga, returned without losing faith in humanity and with boundless pity for the insulted and injured. A man like that must look at life from more angles than one, and it is primarily the task of calling forth Dostoevsky's human philosophy that Mr. Meler-Graefe has set himself, a task in which he has succeeded admirably...
...fully realize that they had allowed Uncle Leopold to seize, under humanitarian pretexts, one of the richest colonial empires on the Globe. Astounding is the story of how British-born & U. S.-bred Henry Morton Stanley, greatest African explorer, sought to convince U. S. and British statesmen of the boundless worth of the Congo; of how he was feted as an explorer but had his practical suggestions ignored, and finally joined reluctant forces with Belgium's Leopold. Belated exposures of "Belgian Atrocities" in the Congo-true tales of Blackamoors whose hands were hacked off when they failed to bring...
...order that the Freshman may receive a reliable initiation into the boundless wealth of this tradition that the CRIMSON has prepared the publication of the booklet on Harvard traditions and institutions described elsewhere in this morning's issue...