Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...negative side held that if the United States were to disarm, it would not necessarily mean that a wave of pacifism would sweep over the world. "We are exerting pressure on no one," said Birch, the first negative speaker. "Therefore, if we disarmed, no European nation would be benefited, while the weaker American nations would be deprived of our aid. The pacifist bases his present stand on conditions which will not exist for centuries. War will continue, until the people are educated against it from the cradle...
...face and tell them where to go. I have known Daugherty for years. We were neighbors in Ohio. He is a kind and generous man who will do anything for people without compensation. He was always that way. Daugherty is too good a man to do anything mean or petty. I do not believe a thing that has been said against...
...fact that he found much strong support in a Conservative constituency is taken to mean that his declaration in favor of a bold, independent stand against Socialism in England and indecision in foreign policy, creates a new issue on which the Conservative Party must stand if it is to reestablish itself. In a statement issued after he had recovered his composure, "Winnie" took that attitude...
...Zeppelin company foresee success and little danger. But they predict failure for Amundsen's plan of airplane flight from Spitzbergen, Norway, to Point Barrow, Alaska. "Many flights will be necessary to lay in supplies at the Pole. One forced landing on barren and broken ice fields may mean death, without the faintest hope of succor for the lightly provisioned aviators...
...Practical Religion" by the devout Herbert Poley argues eloquently for the Hartford Plan to remedy ecclesiastical ills, the essence of which is to embrace theoretically opposite views at the same time, and then to live according to the mean. Hartford, I predict, due to this article, will become the center of the next world movement for something or other...