Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...anticipating arms. True, such luxuries are seldom realized. The end of the fire-seeking trail is generally a wood-shed or a chicken-house which some urchin has se alight. Fair heroines are scarce; and tall sky-scrapers refuse to burn except at uncertain intervals. Yet there is always hope of some great catastrophe, a second Chicago or Baltimore blaze; or perhaps even such a scene as the movies show on red films, while the orchestra pounds the bass...
...universal military training. In the first place, every student of international relations is well aware that the strengthening of a nation's military establishment incites either nations to do likewise; so that, not only are the resources of all the countries concerned taxed to the utmost, in the vain hope of successfully vying with one another in the up building of armaments, but the very act of increasing a country's military forces necessarily breeds suspicion in the minds of its neighbors, and inevitably results, sooner or later, in an armed clash. Thus Japanese and Australian militarism were given...
...breed the very conditions that will create hostile coalitions against which there can be no adequate defence, we should strive toward the realization of the longing of the war-sick nations of Europe for a new and rational order, and avoid a policy calculated to frustrate completely the hope of a permanent reconstruction of international relationships. K. G. DARLING...
...brought to a close. In the meantime, with the outcome still trembling in the balance, ought we to omit preparations for all possible emergencies through reliance on a plan of universal peace, which even its most ardent supporters admit is at present little more than an ambitious hope? And it must also be noted that if a League to Enforce Peace does become a reality, the United States will be called upon to furnish its quota of the forces which are to police the world. Is it to be expected that other countries will deem our pitiful mobile field force...
...winter term opens, and this year is no exception to the rule. Nickalls will start the regular work of the crew men immediately after the junior promenade, which will be held on February 6. Captain Cord Meyer is ready to start in when the time arrived and Yale undergraduates hope for a better showing on the river next June that was made...