Word: condemn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perhaps the most remarkable thing was the first reaction of the world toward the Russian revolution. Nations which had been themselves born by revolution--which had been taught of and had thoroughly believed in the despotism and injustice of the Empire--did not hesitate to condemn the Revolutionists. After all, an empire was a perfectly orthodox and respectable form of government,, whether it was well-administrated or not. And this Red thing was new--sufficient condemnation alone. Fortunately, most nations have calmed their early fears, and as the Russian experiment has become more explicable. Europe has grown more tolerant. America...
...that we have done so in "discourteous" language is to suggest that we have attacked individuals--more particularly the Governing Board. We believe that no language is strong enough to condemn the principle of suppression. But we have never believed that the Governing Board favored or ever even considered such a policy. Nor can yesterday's editorial, if read carefully, be construed so as to prove we felt otherwise...
Corfu. On a question involving a major power, the Council of the League was noncommittal. It did not, in the slightest degree, condemn Italy for the Corfu business. (Last September Mussolini bombarded Corfu in retaliation for the assasination of Italian officers in Albania, due, he said, to the negligence of the Greeks. He refused interference by the League. Did he thereby violate the Covenant of the League? The Council of the League, in order to keep Italy's friendship, now says...
Republican and Democratic sentiment in the College will openly clash for the first time, when members of the Debating Union affiliated with Harvard's two rival political clubs debate the question "Resolved: That this house should condemn the present administration's foreign policy of isolation and non-cooperation, and criticize what cooperation has been undertaken," at the Faculty Room of the Union, this evening at o'clock. The meeting is open to all members of the University...
...gone before. The eccentricities of style and the general morbidness of subject matte that seems to characterize most authors of the present day probably reflect a prevailing restlessness in the public mind. Although these peculiarities may not now seem to lead toward any definite goal, it is unfair to condemn them in the mass on the sole ground of non-conformity. They may be striving toward a new school of literary thought, and though their methods may appear strange to one trained in the ways of Shakespeare and Milton, their sincerity, at least, is unquestioned...