Word: consign
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...mobs go up and down the street, shrieking for the liberty they cannot comprehend. The rule of the mob is always terrible, for under it all that is lofty vanishes. If only through the rule of the mob may the rule of the people find stability, then we must consign ourselves to the maxim of the Jesuits, and trust that the end justifies the means...
...wealth of fields and forests. Behind them rests even the skill, the enterprise and ingenuity of our people. If property is safe, if the nation is safe, if life is safe, then those bonds are safe. And if those bonds are not safe, then a man had as well consign his gold to the sea and his existence to oblivion, for the world...
Those men who now are preparing for their departure to fight the enemy which desolates France, keep with them the responsibility of those non-combattants who at home depend on them for existence. In no surer way may a soldier consign his property to his dependents than in Government bonds. In so doing he insures them against the dangers of illy-invested capital and the waste of non-productive capital. In so doing he also in a way lays odds on his own strength of heart and arm and the strength of those hundreds of thousands...
...warring nations has been that there are always enough chaplains. Their further experience has been that chaplains consume about as much canned marmalade and bully beef as those whose tastes are presumably more bloodthirsty. In a pinch, when face to face with necessity, a man can pray, or consign his soul to eternity without the aid of a trained intermediary...
Isolated bits of knowledge constitute our fuel for thought, but the product of our thinking capacity will have little individual worth unless we learn to generalize our specific experiences and consign to memory only the fundamental and basic principles essential to stimulate original enterprise. So long as we only speak what we have heard and write what we have read our mental efficiency is zero. Although we probably will always applaud, if not envy, the person having a memory of uncommon accuracy, yet, as Professor Neilson suggests, "the modern idea is that memory is not a store-house in which...