Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germany to work at home and sell the product of her labor at a profit, a part of which would go to France as indemnity. With this money, French laborers were to be paid for rebuilding the wasted provinces. This was a long circuitous plan and would of necessity mean waste and loss of energy...
...evidence, and he is always conscious, when expressing an opinion, of the other side. His individual judgments may be either radical or conservative, yet, in the broad sweep of his viewpoint, he is neither. On the contrary, he combines the best of both. His is the "golden mean" of Horace. The true liberal is well-informed, dispassionate, unprejudiced--in short an ideal...
...poetry standing at the head. But after man has explored the world in terms of the intellect, after he has mapped out life on the great pages of science and philosophy, still the heart of man remains unsatisfied. So man cries out, what does all this revelation of science mean to my heart, to may hopes and dreams, to my aspirations, my immortality, my eternity? The answers lie in art and especially in the melodious lips of poetry. So that poetry comes to supplement the cold intellect, and to give us the emotional meaning of existence. Certainly there is always...
...such as those which the interstate league is playing under, it is legal to have two, three, or five men playing the ball. Perhaps many people will be surprised to learn this, because many officials in describing the foul will raise two fingers, and the spectators take it to mean that there are two men on the ball...
...anybody; neither does it put a lock upon them. It is here for men to seek. It admits openly the principle which governs it; but it is precisely that principle which has preserved Harvard as the alma mater of leaders among men. To be a Harvard man does not mean that one has gone through that fraternizing period of sham democracy in which cane rushes and greased poles have stimulated the spirit of brother-hood; but it does mean a respect for scholarship, for the right of the individual to assert himself in his own way; a feeling for that...