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Word: evils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...world is in flux. In this crucial hour--this plastic stage of civilization--we can mould America into a solid and enduring permanency of true character; or we can let it be misshapen and distorted until like some great evil full of ugliness it becomes "set" and adamantine for wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Build Your Country Into Safety. | 2/26/1919 | See Source »

...field of political satire, such as the two series of Bigelow Papers, he had a theme and a method precisely suited to his temperament. No American has approached Lowell's success in this difficult genre: the swift transitions from rural Yankee humor to splendid scorn of evil and to noblest idealism reveal the full powers of one of our most gifted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "WIT, HUMOR, WISDOM" MARK WORK OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL | 2/21/1919 | See Source »

...this is perfectly definite action and something like it will probably be done in time. The point is that now is the time to deal with Bolshevism while it is spreading and developing its powers of evil. Next year or next month may be too late...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ARCHANGEL FORCE. | 2/4/1919 | See Source »

...being widely argued in the United States that this country can have no interest in such a league. Since America is economically self-sustaining, she is urged not to pledge her resources to repair the evil consequences of other peoples' mistakes; and it is suggested that the derogation of her sovereignty implied in submission to the League is a permanent source of danger...

Author: By Instructor IN History. and Harold JOSEPH Laski, S | Title: STATESMEN MUST CHERISH SPIRIT OF CO-OPERATION | 1/18/1919 | See Source »

...very high degree that they might go through a successful season. This, as Dean Briggs implies, is the natural outcome of paying a coach for the single purpose of shaping a winning team. The day is past when athletics could be viewed by the authorities as a necessary evil. Is it not likely that closer co-operation with the officers of the University would eliminate the narrowness of the "winning team" system and offer us the "more sport and better sport" which we have so anxiously desired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DEPARTMENT OF ATHLETICS. | 1/15/1919 | See Source »

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