Word: dishonor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...painful doubt and despite the dark prospect of suffering and sacrifice, we can at least be sure that today the bold thing to do is also the wise and the necessary thing to do. We have been cautious and prudent. We have been patient to the verge of dishonor. At length it is permitted us to go forward, one in thought and deed, and to be in the sight of all men that high-spirited nation that...
...pedantic; French scholarship to be superficial. Most intellectual lights, like Sir Gilbert Murray and Gabriele d'Annunzio, have found their refuge in acquiescent, even enthusiastic patriotism. Some like Romain Rolland preach tolerance in a foreign country. Bertrand Russell and Maximilian Harden who insist on academic freedom reap only dishonor among their own people...
...Harvard's part in the Civil War," said Captain Cordier, "is enough to inspire any man, for of the enormous number of officers and privates which were furnished, only one received a dishonor- able discharge. With conditions such as they are today, you must do your part, and the only way in which you can do that part well is to be thoroughly prepared and to know what you are about...