Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...written in verse, that declamation is often suffered to interrupt action, and that Shakespeare not infrequently uses what seems to many persons a single and arbitrary psychology-vide for example the marriage of Celia and Oliver and that of Isabella and the Duke-makes Shakespeare-land seem a foreign country to the ordinary play goer and to not a few readers, who are by no means ordinary. But the realistic and materialistic trend of our own time is one of the strongest reasons for going back to Shakespeare's country and dwelling in it until we have learned to take...
...increasing number of available markets for our products.- (3) Invaluable in case of war.- (a) Brings Atlantic and Pacifics coasts together.- (b) Useful as a strategic point.- (1) In mobilizing troops.- (2) As vantage point for vessels.- (c) It is virtually dangerous in other hands.- (1) Gives foreign powers foothold and leverage...
...government ownership.- (A) Public interests demand it.- (a) Monopoly of individuals is undesirable.- (B) Commercial interests demand it.- (a) Early completion thus insured.- (b) Tolls would be lessened.- (1) Enterprise would not be a money making scheme.- (C) National interests demand it.- (a) There are thus no pretexts for foreign interference.- (b) Undisputed right of use in case of war is of greatest importance...
...possible advantage not to be gained from a neutral canal would be its control in case of war.- (2) The United States could not maintain this control in case of war: Woolsey in Yale Review, (Feb., 1896).- (e) It would force the United States to abandon her long settled foreign policy.- (1) It would tend to embroil her in disputes with European nations.- (x) They would not submit to our arbitrary interference in assuming exclusive control of an inter-oceanic water-way.- (y) The Suez Canal has set the precedent for the neutrality of such a water...
Christian Association. Monthly Missionary Meeting. Topic: Home Workers for Foreign Missions. Holden Chapel...