Word: mereness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spite of horned-spectacles and mild manners, these professors' suggestions have been worthy of serious consideration. Their war plans have in mind something more than the mere running of the war. It was they who, under the title of intellectuals, hoped that war might come, in order that many of the injustices which they believe have existed in the past might be corrected. Their lives had been spent in dealing with principles and theories and abstractions. But now they have come into power at a time when many things are being changed and theories may actually be put into practice...
...enemy at bay. In the words of President Wilson, we are fighting the German government and not the German people. But how about England and France? They must also show by some new and unquestioned means that they do not mean to be vindictive or revengeful. Otherwise the mere declaration by President Wilson, while our arms unite in effecting the purposes of our allies, will and cannot be accepted in Germany...
...police or militay power as a means of coercion is impossible because of the widely scattered regions in which mining and farming are carried on. What is needed is some means of exerting a constant and universal pressure on the labor population as a whole. The mere arrest of leaders is not enough. The final solution of the problem must be constructive, rather, than has been the case thus far, destructive. Only in this way can those who deserve the severe treatment of the law be sifted from the large majority of right-thinking working men, and the possibility...
...Kaiser is afraid of us and wants to quit." Privileges of the press may permit this, but a reasonable sense of patriotism does not. Such a sacrifice of common sense for sensationalism, by creating an unfounded feeling of security and contempt, endangers loan campaigns, recruiting agencies, and our mere nucleus of an army...
...French have had to resort to reprisals for the air raids over undefended towns. Not until every other means of stopping them had been exhausted were the Allies justified in stooping to this policy, but the blood of their murdered non-combatants calls for action, not the action of mere vengeance, as would men of other races and other character, but action for protection. If the Germans have been carrying on their raids with the settled aim of keeping aeroplanes at home for purposes of defense, then reprisals will equalize the military advantage, and maybe even outweigh...