Word: less
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...election is interesting not because the vote of a Democrat or a Republican or a Socialist more or less will have any effect upon the legislation of the Senate, but because it will indicate the change, or lack of change, in sentiment in that hitherto pacifistic state. More than half the representatives from Wisconsin voted against declaring war last April and the legislature has only been induced after the lapse of a year to censure the notoriously disloyal La Follette. While the majority of the press and public men have since come out in support of the Government...
...same deficiency has not been so apparent; nevertheless, the tendency for slighting the studies is prevalent among the undergraduates. It is evident they are expecting clemency under present conditions. But such expectations should not be cherished. The country's position in the war necessitates that there should be less laxity than ever...
...turning. Moreover, our purpose is sincere enough not to require a misleading encouragement. We need not be patted on the back by sentimental expressions of the "nobility of our cause" which are insincere and almost repel us from a belief in what we are fighting for. We need less motion picture patriotism and journalistic camouflage and more honest effort and sound support of our Government. Our strength lies in truth. When thousands of British are falling it does no good to assert in huge headlines that "American Troops Stop Germans." It appeals to a selfish national pride, but does little...
...ourselves. Instead of impotently denying the materialistic strain in the individual's life and thus breeding hypocrisy or scoffing, let us recognize the economic basis and utilize this recognition for such a broadening as will give the whole people a square deal in those physical advantages. In short, less Billy Sunday salvation and more Roosevelt social justice and Wilson democracy in the mill towns...
...advancement in the individual or in the group? I do not. It is not gushy sentimentalism or flat self-abnegation that I advocate; backsliding of the individual or unwarranted self-humiliation have no part in my theme. What I should like to see in our schools and colleges is less concentration on the purely materialistic aspects of human knowledge and understanding, more regard for the complete self-development and self-ennoblement of the individual, which can never be accomplished by slighting or ignoring those sources of inspiration that have guided men in the past...