Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...after every injury. Today only a few points of aggressive honor remain. Why is it? Partly, of course, because we have learned to let the law right our wrongs. But our law provides no redress for sheer insults and forbids a man, assailed by a murderer, to stand his ground and kill if he can safely retreat. Europe, however, sanctions duelling and standing ground...
...international law seems valueless to me because I think it would defeat its own ends. Another use of retaliation is to win prestige. I myself put faith in other expedients than war to gain a less precarious and less costly prestige. But war can be strongly argued on the ground of prestige and also on the premise that the Allies cause is our cause. To wage war as a point of honor, however, seems to me to be unintelligent. CECIL H. SMITH...
...moderate, intellectually balanced undergraduates are rallying around the standard of intelligent preparedness. The last day of the enrolment drive is here. The heavy guns and the lighter artillery have shelled the enemy's entrenchments for an entire week with countless rounds of written and verbal exhortation. Since the ground in front of Hill No. 1200 has been well prepared, today's final charge ough to be a triumphant rush...
...port of Matamoros because they were sent from there across the Rio Grande into Texas. Similarly, England, aware, for example, that more lard was imported into Copenhagen in three weeks than into all Denmark in the previous eight years, has sought to prevent such importations whenever there was good ground for believing that their ultimate destination was Germany. The Allied blockade has been effective, as a legitimate blockade must be. It has been conducted with every attempt to reduce the loss and inconvenience of neutrals to a minimum...
...Shall it, then, be war? This is for Germany, and not for us, to say. The President has taken the narrowest possible ground. He takes his stand on the sacrifice of 'American ships and of American lives,' although he had formerly taken the broader ground of humanity. He has given Germany the benefit of every doubt; and has scrupulously avoided any appearance of partisanship...