Word: might
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...peace proposals which have come from the Teutonic allies had come from nations alive to their international obligations, jealous of their national integrity, scrupulous as to their general honor, the world might be cheered by the hope that, presently, when the scales had fallen from deluded but honest eyes, we might reach a basis which would offer the poor comfort of a gradual rapprochement. But the Teutonic allies are not such nations--not any of them. They are, together, notorious for the lack of the things mentioned above. So, behind each offer camouflaged as Peace, hides the grinning skeleton...
...America take heed. Let us sacrifice our petty criticisms to the need of maintaining a united front. The English political genius will no doubt solve the present problem. Yet the occurrence of the break means a distinct loss. Although America might patch up like internal difficulties, it nevertheless can not afford to risk a disorganization such as is threatening England. A house divided against itself must surely fall. Stand intelligently behind your government and avoid that criticism which breeds dissension, political discord, and the poisoning of our entire effort...
...suggestion has been made that in war time when colleges are reduced in size, less attention to the qualification of applicants for admission might be given, with a rigid elimination later of those who cannot keep the pace, or who do not prove capable of doing the work well. That sounds reasonable, but anyone, who is in the habit of conducting a class knows that the pace depends upon the students as well as the instructor, and that to add to a class even a small proportion of men less competent than the rest inevitably slows the pace...
...means a necessarily additional application of labor to war industry. Yet we are told to spend our money freely for articles produced by concerns "of every kind." Non-essential industries (in the war sense), finding the same demand for their products, will continue to use supplies and labor which might otherwise be diverted to those industries essential to the prosecution of the war. If the candy-makers find "business as usual" they will continue to use sugar which might be feeding our soldiers in France, and labor which might be building guns...
...sports. Quite recently, in an address in New York City, M. J. Pickering, graduate manager of athletics at the University of Pennsylvania, justified this policy by attributing its adoption to the outspoken appeal of the student body for participation in various branches of sport in order that they might fit themselves for military service...