Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President, I am strongly persuaded from every moral con- sideration, and from every material consideration, and from every political consideration of duty and responsibility, not only to ourselves but to the world, that we should adhere to this World Court, with the reservations suggested, and be one of the potential factors in shaping its destiny, in extending its usefulness, in giving wisdom to its decisions and in making it a world temple of justice and law, where all nations can go to have their international differences and disputes decided...
After seven years of peace, victorious France and vanquished Germany have exchanged places, according to the special correspondent of the New York Times. The nation which at Versailles was saddled with all the moral obloquy and mach of the material debt of the war has staged a sensational comeback...
...understanding and sympathetic man, and a man of the highest intellectual endowments. Self forgetful always, often absorbed and silent, a hard, steady thinker, he became, on appropriate occasion, the most vivacious and sparkling of companions. Sternness in him was wedded to geniality. Seldom, perhaps, has so uncompromising a moral and scholarly standard, a veracity so inflexible, been joined to such gentle considerateness for one's fellowmen...
...recommended to the Council of the League of Nations that Greece pay an indemnity of 20,000,000 leva ($146,000) to cover the material losses suffered by the Bulgarians, and 10,000,000 leva as restitution due the Bulgarian Government for "loss of lives, loss of working days, moral suffering by the population and the costs incurred" in taking military measures...
...requirements for eligibility are American citizenship, a working knowledge of German, ability to carry on work at a German university, which Implies at least two years in an American college or university, ability to pursue independent study and research, a health certificate, and good moral character and adaptability...