Word: mereness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...mere perusal of the title of the War Department bill now in conference would show the fallacy of any such conclusion, for it plainly states that it is 'A bill to authorize the President to temporarily increase the military establishment of the United States...
...there, sent by the people's committee, whose opinions are somewhat dubious. There they will be greeted by their German and Austrian and Bulgarian and Turkish brothers-in-labor, although enemies-in-arms, and fraternize with them in the common love of that spirit of equality which transcends mere national politics. We might well send representatives from our own I. W. W. to add to the international gathering...
...sorely needed the Monthly. In the world outside it was looked on as one of the proofs of Harvard's difference from other colleges. The existence of such a magazine indicated, vaguely enough to be sure, a desire to think things through, to reject ready-made opinions for the mere reason that they were ready-made, to hold a little aloof from current lanes of thought. Such a spirit, only too rare in our land of gigantic uniformities, and almost non-existent in our colleges, gave one hope that here at least a leaven was working which would ultimately transform...
...copy of Don Juan lay on the dressing tables of ladies of fashion; a picture of old England in its autumn, smiling through the mist of factory smoke just beginning to rise. Unfortunately a production set in so delightful a key has to be something more than a mere picture, or even a mere dramatization; it ought to be a play in its own right, and this "Major Pendennis" is not. It is little else but a string of amatory episodes arbitrarily put together without much skill. The adapter needs a link more enduring than Mr. Drew to correlate...
...whole thing. Why could not more musical features have been introduced? If the authors objected to turning their farce into a musical comedy their objections stand in the way of their gaining more laurels. Although mixing categories is an awful danger among dramatists, a hybrid triumph is better than mere mediocrity...