Word: farness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...play shows the petty German bureaucracy at its best--or worst--and in so far as it illustrates the officiousness and ignorance of some of the less important public servants of the German empire, points a valuable lesson...
...Harvard Allen and Currie played a fast offensive game, and Burnham and Brooks covered their men well. Grebenstein played by far the best game for Dartmouth...
...great argument against socialism is that the propensities of the many give rise to legislation, but they are far from originating legislation, in which the assumptions of the majority have to coincide to some extent with the opinions of the minority. The same is true in regard to the economic powers of labor, which have in most cases been greatly exaggerated, as is shown by the frequent weakness of strikes. Socialism, concluded Mr. Mallock, in endeavoring to redivide the product would prevent the product from being produced...
...such as was afforded us in Emerson. Yet Longfellow rendered a service only secondary, in enriching and refining that literature and giving it a cosmopolitan culture, providing for it an equally attentive audience in the humblest log-cabins on the prairies or in the more distant literary courts of far away lands...
...robust qualities to bring success in American politics by moaning over the degeneracy of the times, instead of trying to better them, by railing at the men who do the actual work of political life, instead of trying himself to do the work, is a poor creature, and, so far as his feeble powers avail, is a damage and not a help to the community. You may come far short of this disagreeable standard and still be a rather useless member of society. Your education, your cultivation, will not help you if you make the mistake of thinking that...