Word: mereness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...loan forced on a bankrupt government? If not, why not? If an American bribes a Latin American official and secures title to some enormous concession, will Mr. Hughes regard that as a right forever bound up with the honor of the United States?" What America wants is not the mere reiteration from Mr. Hughes that he will protects "rights"--but the statement of a policy. Does the fact that Mexico is struggling for self-government and freedom from capitalistic and aristocratic oppression, convey anything to him? Does he see in the Monroe Doctrine any responsibility of America to encourage just...
...well go to the floor and the nation rub on as best it may in hit-or-miss fashion. Why look before you leap when that means "belogging and postponing the issue"? Nations that always acted precipitately would save themselves much intellectual effort. But rather than have a mere "decision by speculation" in the railroad strike, Mr. Paine prefers what we had, namely, , a hasty leap into "experience," a creation of precedent we do not know how disastrous, and justifiable only to Democrats who can enjoy the fruits of its political expediency...
...location of the Washington Elm, of Oliver Wendell Holmes birthplace, of Wadsworth House, of Longfellow's old home? How many realize that there is a sacred significance in the name that has been degraded to "Mem" or that the title "Soldiers Field" was intended to be more than a mere designation of Harvard's athletic grounds...
...President Foster of Reed College that high marks in college courses are closely related with successful careers after graduation. President Foster has compiled a sufficient mass of statistics from the records of over a 100 colleges to prove that scholastic honors lead to achievement in the outside world, if mere statistics are to be regarded as conclusive proof...
...mere knowledge of the Pythagorean triangle relation or the binomial theorem is probably of less immediate value to the average graduate than the knowledge of how to sharpen a knife or to sew on a button," Dr. Moritz writes. "But has an exercise in fundamental thought processes they are invaluable to every individual, no matter what his ultimate work in life may happen...