Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Aside from the obvious patriotism of such a cause, there are several reasons why all right-minded people should put all the money they can spare into Liberty Bonds. To insist on spending it for some thing which one does not really need is to bid against the Government for the man power, the fuel and the raw materials which it so much needs. All our money should be spent for something which is really needed either by the individual or by the Government, in order that all the man power and resources of the country may be employed where...
...self-preservation--as sound as the instinct to fight. Just whom we shall hate (if we are impelled to hate at all), whether only the Kaiser, or only the Junkers, or the whole German nation, is equally a matter for individual thrashing out. The only criterion we can insist upon is that we shall know the facts and that we shall be sincere. We should be very sure that it is the truth by which our hearts are stirred. Once we are sure of our facts we should ask only to feel as honest, self-respecting human beings, neither trailing...
...opinions publicly expressed by its professors. Assuming authority to delete what it considers undesirable material, the college becomes incidentally and with fresh weight responsible for the material which it allows to remain. In this way the college loses the right, which it may now justly claim, to insist that the utterances of its many professors are in their essence expressions of personal and not of official opinion. The justice of this position, as it obtains in colleges which have not sought to establish a censorship, is one of the chief points emphasized by President Meiklejohn of Amherst in his recent...
...always shall insist...
Lloyd George's and the President's terms of peace are practically the same; they both insist upon the restoration of Belgium and the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France. The one real difference between the desires of the Allies now and last summer comes in the question of the fate of the German government. When we entered the war we were going to destroy the German government and not the German people; we hoped for a German revolution and with it a representative government. Yet our hopes in this direction seem farther and farther from being realized...