Word: finding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...west coast of the continent we find one of the most valuable of the materials for warlike preparation in the nitrate of northern Chile. This substance is not found in marketable quantities elsewhere, and is very necessary for the manufacture of explosives. In this connection it might be said that the trade in iodine, an invaluable commodity for surgical purposes, is entirely controlled by the iodine Combination of the nitrate companies. Because of her nitrate and iodine, if for no other reason, an understanding with Chile is not only, desirable but essential...
...first of all by the individuality and evocative quality of the diction, then by the sustained sweep and music of the line, as contrasted with the briefer felicity of Mr. Norris' phrase. In fact, the two poets present an interesting and suggestive opposition throughout. If in Mr. Norris I find sentiment, fancy, wit--in the older sense--in Mr. Hillyer I find, above all, passion and imagination. But their latest poems are both equally beautiful in their different ways, and both offer promise of even higher performance...
...barbaric simplicity of the judgments of youth which is apt to cause men to consider that the standards of judgment here are aristocratic. There is a clean and healthy tendency to regard men for their accomplishments, and the opportunity for accomplishment is open to every man. Can one find in any other group of men outside of the college world such broad-minded democracy...
...pride of Germany must be bitter and frustrate when she knows that against her are allied all the great freedom-loving and self-governing Powers of the earth. Will she find her own defeat worth all the blood and iron it cost her, all her wrecked fortune, her ruined strength...
Hereafter, the CRIMSON will print no more communications of a pacifistic nature. If there are any members of the University so blind or cowardly in spirit as to clamor for neutrality when all hope of neutrality is dead, they should commune with themselves in private and find reflection in the definition of traitors as those. ". . . adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort...