Word: discarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Allies made vigorous fight to keep the capitulations, the financial and economic clauses in the Treaty, but were finally forced to discard even these claims. The result of the second session shows plainly that Turkey, the loser in the Great War, won a great diplomatic victory over all her enemies who were combined against her. It is difficult to estimate the value of the Near Eastern Peace, which is after all only a technical settlement. One thing certain is that Turkey is once more a geographical entity and a Power to be dealt with in Near Eastern problems. The Treaty...
...down to methods of working, and more important, habits of thinking no less mechanical than turning a screw every ten seconds. Clerks, at first fresh and alert, who allow their jobs to become mere routine with no spark of inquiry enlivening a high-sided rut; preachers and educators who discard their youthful enthusiasm and experimentation for dogma; engineers who reject commonsense in favor of half understood formulae; doctors who rely on the heroic remedies of former ages--such men may do no personal evil, but their influence in preventing progress, their reaction against change, due to inertia alone, is tremendous...
...Bohnen, of the Munich Opera. The roles are dual. In the two acts of the piece they appear as Mona Lisa and her husband, in a story told by a young monk (Mr. Taucher), who impersonates also Mona Lisa's youthful lover, whom she had been forced to discard to marry Francesco di Gioconda...
...memory. He differed from our Shakspere because no impulse was edited in its utterance. His was the uncensored utterance of the psychology of his soul. He made no apologies. He left much to guess at and work out. But if you have the courage and the perseverance to discard the ever obvious, you find and will continue to find yourself free from the character-racking conventionalities of our useless modern civilization. His greatest admirers were his worst defaulters. Tolstoi, Gorki, etc. filched his work and vulgarized it, as did our very original, potent-seeming Bernard Shaw. But who cares...
...republics that are springing up in Europe. They have had a chance to study the American theory of democratic government from a detached viewpoint, and when forming their own constitutions it should be interesting for us to see what they incorporate from our system and what they discard...