Word: deceitfulness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...form of punishment can restrain from nefarious ways. Foremost in this class stand the spies within a nation at war. When that nation is forced to devote every energy in a conflict which threatens its very existence, when the enemy of that nation surpasses any people in history in deceit, insolence and violence, there is only one course left to follow. It is folly for that nation to treat these prowling, scheming marauders in any mild, milk-and-water manner. It is more than folly, it is self-destruction. Death is the traditional and just fate of proved spies...
...poor comfort of a gradual rapprochement. But the Teutonic allies are not such nations--not any of them. They are, together, notorious for the lack of the things mentioned above. So, behind each offer camouflaged as Peace, hides the grinning skeleton of other wars; of national and personal deceit; of the advance repudiation of the very obligations they propose to take; of the absolute indifference to Right; of the utter lack of aggregate and individual honor. All these are gladly lost, sunk, destroyed, in the mad stress to achieve unholy means to unholy ends. It is hopeless to treat...
...entirely barred from the college athlete is also apt to meet with considerable objection. There seems to be two reasons for this. One is that it will simply mean that some of the best ball players will try to play despite the rule and this will result in deceit. The other is the idea maintained by many that it is unfair to the good ball player to deprive him of the right to play in the summer for his board and expenses, if another athlete is allowed to earn money in other forms of employment which are offered him solely...
...demoralization." The headmaster of Phillips Andover Academy follows with a severe indictment of the methods of some of the school coaches and of the colleges where the example of these methods is set Finally comes Professor Stewart of Idaho who asserts that participation in college athletics teaches "trickery and deceit"; that a great number of professionals and ineligibles compete in college athletics; and that the win-at-all-cost spirit is too strongly impressed...
...will look only marred if held where that light will shine upon it. Take for instance the impregnable jungle of our protective tariff. Hold it in the light and see the little demons curled up in its snarled roots and branches. There will be seen little devils of deceit and special privilege, introduced into the tariff, there introduced to each other, and then forming a collective family and posing as the idol of American prosperity. The tariff has not created our prosperity but the extraordinary genius of the American people. The area of free trade with in the country...