Word: disarm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...College Bestiary" should be a vade mecum for every underclassman. It is an accumulation of wisdom, sorted, labelled, illuminated, and, best of all, tucked away in an idiom that by its vigor and raciness will disarm even those who would like to shoot a preacher at sight. Wherever there is a saving grace of ambition in a student; these "characters" of college types and their glosses will be useful...
...horror and injustice of war must furnish the motive for all efforts to bring it to an end. But emotion cannot supply the principles of action which guide men in living. Emotion cannot replace the inexorable logic which governs a situation; it cannot remove present necessities; it cannot disarm Europe and render her gentle and harmless...
...boycotting a nation's commerce, regulated by the free trade principle, and through the marine police force. This force would consist of approximately one hundred light cruisers manned by countries like Denmark or Sweden which have no political or economic ambitions. This, under the condition that all nations should disarm, all armies should be disbanded, and all arsenals, except the few necessary to supply arms to the police, be destroyed, would be an adequate force to maintain discipline. As a result of the adoption of these principles "the state departments and embassies of the world would close their doors tomorrow...