Word: knows
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...races we have multitudes of impassioned orations and sophomore essays, but nothing worthy of being called science. Thousands upon thousands of studies have been devoted by the historians on the German migrations of the fifth century. Can it be that recent events because we are in a position to know more about them are necessarily of lesser intrinsic importance? New Republic
...countries. This has a fantastic sound. Relations are not what they should be, but to call them strained in the sense of militating against such a visit as that proposed is to exaggerate what is abnormal in them. A preliminary looking over of the ground by men who know the qualifications of Mexican students would seem highly desirable. To arrange for a year of study which proved ill-adapted to the needs of those who came might do more, harm than good. Some of our educational foundations or an individual has the opportunity of rendering an international service by making...
...number, and the good things show a really surprising command of language. Yet there is nothing very notable in the collection, one receives the same impression that one so often gets from Harvard papers: here are a lot of clever young men who have read a good deal and know how to write; they are civilized, intelligent, sensitive, literary--but they haven't very much to say for themselves. The poets, particularly fail to express anything vital or even individual. They write pretty fair verse in a good many different forms. Sonnets predominate, but there are specimens of ballade, epigram...
...armies cause war, but offers no argument, historical or philosophical, to support it. How he explains the long peace in Europe between 1871 and 1914, whether he thinks Belgium was militaristic and Switzerland unarmed, or whether he similarly holds that umbrellas are the cause of rain, we do not know; but he scorns Professor Perry for not agreeing with him. One is forced to assume that he was not allowed to read Mr. LaFarge's clever little essay on book-reviewing, which appears directly above "B. D. A's" Philippic, and applies admirably to that effort--but perhaps it also...
...last hundred years or so. Mr. Fortescue was speaking in London, and he referred to the way they were handicapped by the fact that they only knew one side of affairs. Writing a history of the war before the war was over, he said, when they did not know what the issue would be; when they knew nothing of the other side, nothing of the diplomatic work, nothing of scandals and wirepulling, was impossible. Christian Science Monitor...