Word: minding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Balkans to the Aegean, and when I ventured to point out that there were obstacles in the way he replied "What other nations want makes no difference, but what we want we take." Such sentiments, expressed by persons in authority, have not been calculated to instill in my mind the same confidence in the nobility of Germany's aims as Mr. Henderson has, but then I am not a man of letters or have I derived my opinions from German professors. G. A. MORIARTY...
...could speak scarcely a word of the language. I was in Germany from November 7, 1913 to July 28, 1914. I was under contract to complete by October 1, 1914 a volume on Germany for a series to be called "Present Day Histories." I had made up my mind that my chief source of inspiration should be the newspapers. I read them unremittingly, morning, noon and night. I subscribed, from January 1, 1914, on, to the Zeitungsarchiv which, in a daily and monthly edition, gives the gist of the important articles from 120 newspapers of all shades of opinion from...
...simply try to beat him the next time you play. But with us, if your greatest rival upsets your whole campaign, which has included a number of contests with other rivals in which considerable prestige is lost by defeat, the only thing left to do, according to the American mind, is to get a more efficient organization which will prevent such a catastrophe in the ture. I leave it to the reader to select his own illustration of this peculiar American tendency...
...simply try to beat him the next time you play. But with us, if your greatest rival upsets your whole campaign, which has included a number of contests with other rivals in which considerable prestige is lost by defeat, the only thing left to do, according to the American mind, is to get a more efficient organization which will prevent such a catastrophe in the ture. I leave it to the reader to select his own illustration of this peculiar American tendency...
...concludes as follows: "There is nothing in my mind which would so directly make for peace as to be assured that the defensive strength of our nation resides in those citizens for whom war is not a profession, who belong to no military caste, to no military party, who are free from the suggestions and the control of a mob impulse, and who not only have been trained in the knowledge of war-fare, but also have been grounded in the fundamental principles of just and fair dealing between man and man, and between nation and nation as well...