Word: move
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sentiment in the Peace Congress has lately turned in favor of admitting the German Republic to the League on the same basis with all other nations, as soon as she carries out all the obligations of the peace imposed upon her. The only argument in favor of such a move seems to be a hope that Germany as a League member can be better watched and more regularly inspected for illicit accumulation of war materials, than as a non-member. If the peace terms are as adequate and effective as it is hoped, such inspection will be carried on quite...
Undignified is the word which best suits the latest move of the Senate in its war on the executive. According to last evening's papers, that body has taken as an official document a paper brought to this country by a Chicago newspaper man and has voted to introduce it into the Congressional record. No word of any sort confirming the authenticity of the document has come from the American representatives in Paris. The Senate is in reality going behind the back of the President, or as one Senator remarked "getting through the kitchen window...
...enlistment of men from the University. By the summer of 1917, it had grown until it included thirteen sections, and a large number of big motor ambulances. All volunteer ambulances service was disbanded in October, 1917, and joined to the United States Forces. Prevented by this move from keeping on with his former work, Norton gave his services to the Intelligence Department of the United States Navy...
That all is not learned in books is bromidic, but to the student from beyond America it can well be said. His education by this wise move of the Council will be broadened, and a valuable outlook on Harvard will be his good fortune. On his return to the homeland, he will find that from the associations gained in various a activities he will possess a truer picture of American life than was gained in the confines of the class room...
...against all banks and corporations and all means by which small capitals become united in order to produce important and beneficial results. They carry on mad hostility against all established institutions. In a country of unbounded liberty they clamor against oppression. In a country of perfect equality they would move heaven and earth against privilege and monopoly. In a country where the wages of labor are high beyond parallel, they would teach the laborer that he is but an oppressed slave...