Word: detach
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...instrument of great practical power, but as yet far from a perfect one. If reports be true, President Wilson in Paris has already taken Senator Root's views into account. Let us profit by the fair and reasonable position which Mr. Root has taken and above all let us detach the League scheme from personalities as completely as he has done, and try to discuss as justly and disinterestedly its merits and defects...
...Closet scholarship is unavailing in a commercial civilization. The thinker must be in vital touch with the magnificent display of energy precious souls term materialism. But high pay is no means to this end. It creates a barrier where we want a bridge. Salaries higher than a living-wage detach from life: only serious work and sacrifice pay in the end. JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT...
...Name From To Berridge, W. A. Recruit Detach. Co. M Ingraham, M. B. " " M Wister, L. C. " " M Graydon, B. " " M Lent, J. M. " " M Kant, L. S. " " M Stover, R. M. " " M Merriam, A. B. " " M Watson, R. C. " " M Worcester, T. " " M Lawlor, E. L. " " M Trenham, J. F. " " M Hammond, W. S. " " M Busk, F. W. " " M Paul...
...British Government; he must admit that, being in a madhouse, it is natural that the inmates, who regard themselves as sane, should after their fashion treat him as a madman. To escape the rigid supervision of the authorities in time of war, a philosopher would have to detach himself not merely from the point of view of his countrymen, but from that of the planet on which he lives, and go to live not, perhaps, on Mars, but on some heavenly body with a more pacific name. Inasmuch as Mr. Bertrand Russell is a social philosopher...