Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could perhaps be our Moses if she had patience and penetration. But she is impatient of the sluggishness of organized women to move toward any definite object, and she frets over their impotency. She is not able to forget that the General...
...reason why, but to do and die! Then duty becomes heroic, but intellectually simply. In more tranquil periods the supreme duty is to think aright. It is then that opinions can, and should, be formed that will direct action when the stress comes. Let us not forget that in peace the conflicting opinions are formed that later produce wars; that in quiet times the social ideas grow which, if erroneous, collect the explosives for subsequent catastrophes. It is then that the duty is incumbent to form, and help others to form, correct, unbiased opinions, particularly upon these subjects in which...
...conviction for conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act. Charles G. Dawes, Vice President, Senate reformer, announced that he would make one speech a month in the interest of a rule which would permit a majority of the Senate to close debate at any time. Some Senators would like to forget about this proposal, but Mr. Dawes may force the issue in the Senate by speaking in the home states of those Senators coming up for reelection in 1927. In the closing days of May, he was to speak in Alabama (where Underwood, who favors the rule, will have to fight...
...great majority of the students down here have already lost the art of relaxing; they can never forget themselves and their assumed dignity long enough to be natural with one another. Hence it is that in this one external characteristic, which in itself is of the greatest importance in judging any school or college, Harvard can no more to be compared with Williams than an elephant to a rose...
...Throughout the ages, nation and nation, races and classes, castes and creeds, have been pitted against one another in open warfare; but when the strife is over and treaties are signed they sit down together, forget their past differences...