Word: mother
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...South Acton when he was hit by the engine returning from shifting freight. He was taken at once to the Cambridge Hospital where he died at 9.30 o'clock. Death resulted from a fracture of the skull. His brother, M. D. Graves 2L., as well as his father and mother, who were visiting him, were present when he died...
...common disposition, though it is true that the good is inherited rather than the bad. Unity in family does not come in common opinions, beliefs, and characteristics; it comes from a community of ideals. These ideals come from common loves--ideals of virtue and goodness taken from the mother and of honor and uprightness taken from the father. This unity of ideals in love, purity, and honor is the true family unity and can be complete with the utmost diversity in traits and powers...
Foreign investment is essential to the industrial progress of any new country. Owing to her troubled affairs, Spain, the mother country, could not give this support and the other countries stepped in, Germany, France, and Italy following the lead of England. Although with the greatest natural advantages, the United States has only an infinitesimal part in the total foreign holdings...
...Roosevelt closed his address by giving a short resume of the conceptions of our government. Before it was founded no one dreamed that federalism could be applied to a growing country. Up to that time colonies had been either wholly independent or wholly subservient to the mother country. Our system has worked admirably, but since the interests of the country have become so complicated, faults have cropped out. A rift has grown up between the spheres of action of the national and state governments, and this neutral ground is now a field of refuge for all the men of great...
Professor Adams of Dartmouth referred to Harvard as the mother of all colleges in that she has set a high standard of achievement which all endeavor to equal...