Word: globes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "This war will liberate the world and the tremendous effect it will have on the arts cannot be measured at the present time, for it will not only affect poetry, to what extent no one can say, but it will change human life all over the globe. The hackneyed question as to how it will affect poetry is of little consequence, for the great European struggle will not decide whether we are to write in sonnet form or in vers libre, but will overturn principles and theories that have been adhered to for centuries...
...China another economic world cockpit is very distinctly beginning to appear. This vast, unmilitary nation, emerging into the adolescence of modern government, is the vastest storehouse of virgin economic energy still remaining on the globe's face. Her coal and iron are sufficient to last the world for 1,000 years at the present rate of consumption...
...political surprise is described as "springing a mine." Indeed, it is hard to find any vocabulary of politics or of philosophy which does not not reek with figures of speech borrowed from the battlefield. --Boston Globe...
...fact, however, the mass of the students are as blissfully unmindful that their fellow students are lessons in geography and history and sociology as the mass of the people in this city are unheeding of what they could learn from their fellow-residents from other sections of the globe, if they set out to incorporate within their own consciousness the knowledge and experience of those others as to foreign lands. History at first hand is a pretty thrilling affair, even though it may be a bit warped and twisted and prejudiced. A college with 28 straight nationalities and an additional...
...World Christmas Tree will gleam with its myriads of peaceful candle flames; at last peace on earth seems near. And yet we all hardly look forward toward such a holy night for warring mankind without the secret fear that unholy struggle may soon disrupt the peoples of the globe again, and that the new peace may be merely a truce. The hateful thoughts which have grown in these years of sorrow are so abundant that they will last and ruin the peace to come; the nations, it seems, will make true harmony impossible for generations...