Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...American theory is that of a Christian nation, with Christian motives, Christian ideals, and a Christian standard of ethics. To further this theory we should first forget the mass of humanity in singling out the units. This process should begin with the surrender of one's self to God. Second we should think--the need today is for a generation of thinking Christians--in order that we may not hold the old, worn out, abandoned conceptions, but may gain a rational and vigorous Christianity. In the third place we should reach out to humanity. The unit that thinks must embrace...
...athletic contests have sometimes been called "war." Possibly they may partake of the nature of war, but we should not forget that after all it is a mimic war, and that the players themselves are perhaps more conscious of this difference than the spectators. Too much is the athlete regarded as a fighter in a great cause, whose efforts must be supported both on and off the field in every possible way. A cloud of witnesses around the grounds, holding his every action in full survey, seems to be regarded as a legitimate division of the army, which...
...Wives of Windsor." Soon came a notable event, the production of "Dan't Druce," in which the young actor made a pronounced success in his love scenes with Miss Marion Terry. He showed an easy grip of character in "Duty," and in 1879 he played Sir Horace Welby in "Forget-Me-Not," with Miss Genevieve Ward, in a trying part acted with great finesse and spirit...
...times like the present, when everyone is much interested in current topics--the war in the east and the Panama canal question--we are apt to forget that at other times there may be very little interest in current events. It is at such times that clubs for the discussion of contemporary subjects break down...
...said: "We remind you that we make no attack upon the principle of labor organization, we grant its possibility for good, but we say that to attain this good, unions must not assume to manage the employers' business; they must forego coercion, and in building themselves up, must not forget that those who differ with them have rights guaranteed them under our free government. But the fact that this is a nation bent on the betterment of the laboring class, that trade-unionism has been agitated and reagitated, and yet has failed to receive the support of eighty-five...