Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Perhaps no German institution seems so little in need of improvement as the Germany army. The army is the principal training school of national manhood and public devotion. It will remain so, for unfortunately there is little hope that after the war there will be less need of military preparedness. Whatever is the outcome of the present conflict, it will leave for many years to come a vast accumulation of hatred, jealousy and mutual fear among all European nations. Germany, as the main butt of all these fears and hatreds, will agree to a reduc- tion of armament only...
...Like all German political parties and social classes, the churches also, particularly the Catholic and Protestant, have stood together during the war. Let us hope that the union will last after...
...becoming weary of always making you happy, to our own distress and at our own cost. We feel that it is high time for you to be gracious to us instead of our being gracious to you. Surely our contention in this matter is only fair and right; we hope that this afternoon you will see fit to show actively your acquiescence. --Yale News...
...swirl high. He felt indeed very witty. But he quite failed to feel that realism is entirely a matter of the effect produced and has nothing whatever to do with servile imitation of physical act. If you feel that the scarlet Cardinal and the Catholic Church represent Spain's hope and defiance of its great sadness; if you feel that the landscape behind "Uncle Daniel" is what formed both him and his family, if you feel these things, there is the reason for their existence, there the reality and there the beauty...
...Rush ha made marked changes for the better in Princeton's system of play. But apparently he has not yet overcome defects which have been deep-seated in Nassau's teams. Until he builds up a more formidable offensive Princeton can hardly hope to overcome the superiority which Harvard has been demonstrating since 1912--which she demonstrated even in 1911, when white's great chance run and one other lucky steak of the game returned Princeton a victor. --New York Tribune...