Word: imperfections
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment. Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge. While that experiment is part of our system, I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes...
Spirituous liquors, then, must go, for in the only and imperfect way at our disposal, the people have declared against them. But are light wines, beer, and ale, "intoxicating"? Almost anyone would answer in the negative. Certainly it would take gallons of 3 per cent, beer to have the slightest deleterious effect. As for light wines, even were they intoxicating, their high price would continue seriously to limit their use, and to do away with their abuse altogether. We feel confident that if the Supreme Court of the United States interpreted the 18th Amendment as applying only to spirituous liquors...
...state. But that is absolutely inadequate if the teaching profession is to attract the type of people who are competent to be the guides during their most impressionable years of the future Americans. The startling number of young men disclosed by the draft who are illiterate or physically imperfect shows that our schools are functioning imperfectly even now. Should not the strong arm of the National Government reach out, then, and correct and regulate our common schools? It surely can do much good by way of improvement. But quite within the range of possibilities are very terrible dangers...
discreditable, is uneasy, as the sonnets of the young (and even of the old) are wont to be; the Horatian verses to Chloe are imperfect, but promising,--"Therefore lift up your blushing gaze, and quit your all-sufficient mother." Mr. Auslander's sonnet, like all his work, shows talent and skill; but, hardened though we are to mixed novelties, we cannot accept as genuine his prayer for "the feathered thrill of birds." Mr. La Farge's "To My Goddess" exhibits feeling for the music of verse and contains pretty details. Unhappily the reviewer's copy omits the last line...
...results of the past year have shown the ability of our seamen to get upon terms with the submarine menace and gradually to gain the upper hand. This result has been achieved in spite of an imperfect knowledge of a new and barbarous method of warfare and of a scarcity of suitable material. Our material resources for this warfare are already improved, and are being rapidly augmented, whilst science is placing at our disposal means of offense and defense of which we have been in need. --The Outlook...