Word: combating
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...political conditions in the Balkan peninsula. Coming almost directly from Servia, where he has travelled and studied conditions during the past few months, Mr. Trevelyan told of the terrible epidemic of typhus fever which is now raging there, and of the courageous work which is being done to combat it by British and American doctors and nurses...
...former war has produced. If ever there was a time ripe for federations of nations, diminutions of national armament, international police forces, increased control of international relations, and so on, certainly now is that time. As the one great nation which will not be exhausted and embittered by the combat, the United States has a most important and essential part to play in the coming readjustment. Is it idle to think that the hardest and yet the most necessary lesson which must be taught will be mutual trust and co-operation among nations? And need it be suggested that example...
...true pacifist to try to correct this deficiency by gaining a certain amount of needed training at a military camp? Surely we have not reached that longed for state of civilization where national differences are settled without bloodshed Therefore, until such a time comes, should we not combat war clouds and war itself rather with a well sharpened weapon of self-preparedness than with some untried instrument of the future. G. B. BLAINE...
...cast of the play is as follows: Hills, U. S. Consul, A. W. Poole '14 Hors de Combat, Secretary to Consul, W. E. Wellington '17 Julius Woodrow Napoleon Finney, valet, W. Faulkner '14 Hamilton Dyke, American rug agent, F. F. Munroe '15 Prince Nicomede, Prince of Ucalaly, P. Blackmur '15 Princess Maami, daughter of Sultan, R. H. Allen '14 Sultan, R. B. Whidden '15 Venus Snow, W. D. Foote '15 Diana Snow, (twins), S. B. Hoar '15 Grace Dyke, sister to Hamilton Dyke, J. J. Armstrong '14 Lion, S. L. Simonds '14 Alina, Maami's maid, A. R. Boynton...
...opinion, condemned in the opening paragraph, that "interest in the more transcendental aspects of life" belongs to "the deluded and the unhealthy" is rather supported than disproved by most of the evidence in the essay. But perhaps the author's chief purpose, as he himself suggests, was only to combat his own tendency to a narrow rationalism and to cultivate a wider intellectual sympathy. In this self-discipline he seems to have been entirely successful...