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Word: honestly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...smashing success," should not be printed in a document that is sold for more than one cent. The only story in the number, My Friend of the Smoking Room, should be powerful or nothing. It is not powerful, nor is its style workmanlike; but it is an honest effort to express the struggle in a wrecked life. Little Doddy--or Much Wampum, an imitation of George Ade, is the saddest reading in the number and belongs to a generation that prefers colored supplements to Du Maurier and George Ade to Thackeray. To Write or Not to Write is a commendably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Advocate" Slipshod in English | 11/19/1915 | See Source »

...closing, Mr. Rhodes called the attention of his audience to the courage, honor and human sympathy of "the most American of Americans" as James Russell Lowell has called him. Caesar may be called the mighty Caesar. Lincoln cannot well be called mighty, in the same sense, but the term "Honest Abe" expresses the opinion and feelings of his countrymen

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON LINCOLN AND CIVIL WAR | 6/22/1915 | See Source »

...most important of which is a thorough familiarity with University affairs. Its editorials represent the opinions of those Harvard men. It claims the right to try to be constructive and to disagree with the opinions of other members of the University. Its communication column is always open for the honest expression of other men's opinions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON AND PUBLIC OPINION. | 6/14/1915 | See Source »

...thinks the cause of peace at all worth while can be honest with himself and at the same time belittle the difficulties which lie ahead. Peace is essentially a state of mind. Its progress among civilized nations today depends upon enlightenment in simple self-interest. It devolves upon every man who has seen the futility of war and felt the imperative need for some constructive organization to take the place of brute force, to constitute himself a perpetual centre of propaganda and education for others. Only thus can knowledge of the basis of international relationship penetrate from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FIGHT ON!" | 4/3/1915 | See Source »

...They are honest expressions of opinion for the most part. But as they are opinions, they are generally worthless unless the author makes himself known...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "ANON." | 1/25/1915 | See Source »

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