Word: mischiefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Again a serious proposal is being made to undo the mischief of the tower of Babel and supply the world with a universal language. Dean West of the Princeton Graduate School is the sponsor of the new movement, suggesting simplified Latin as an auxiliary tongue to be used by "the statesman and the traveler, the scholar, the professional man and the business...
...deep consciousness of the power of the United States to restrain the dangerous ambitions of nations which still have the taste of blood. The Hearsts and their kind who represent Great Britain as a centre of imperialistic intrigue and commercial plotting have no higher object than to make mischief between kindred peoples and financial profit out of a shameful traffic in racial and national prejudices and antipathies. They will reap at best a poor harvest if Canada, Great Britain and the other British nations never forget that he that is slow to anger is better than the mighty. The Montreal...
...vote for him for the highest office in their gift. Now we reach a question of Americanism. Personally, my Americanism is of such a kind that I prefer to think that these million citizens were not disloyal, were not friends of a felon, and followers of a mischief maker, but that they were friends of a fine old man and believers in a type of collectivism, which is not popular in this country, but towards which all the tendencies of modern political and industrial development seem to point...