Word: nation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once Germany is established as the first nation in Europe there can be peace in Europe. Until then, never. Those who know Germans know they are a peace loving people, but once take away from them what they think is theirs, and you'll see the best fighters in the world. The German race is the greatest of our civilization. Compare them with the English and you'll find that in art, in war strategy, in every occupation Germans are superior. I believe Shakespeare himself was of German origin, was he not? Correct me on this. I would...
...dippers don't talk much. . . so they do considerably more thinking. Smoke is the ghost of tobacco. Chewing tobacco is its body, but snuff is the soul of nicotine . . . the mark of men with hair on their chests and women who raise breast-fed babies that make the nation's statesmen and soldiers...
...those who pretend differently-- who hold out to a hard pressed people freedom from pain and trouble, undisturbed repose and constant enjoyment--then cheat the people and impose upon them their lying promises only making the evil worse than before. The high debt of 40 billion for a nation of 130,000,000 inhabitants together with over 10,000,000 unemployed should be much more our common concern than the happenings in Europe. The nations of Europe were never peaceful and never will be. It is their way of life. Europe was always a battleground and always will...
...aren't so sure but what the undergraduates win the first decision for sobriety and realism. A nation should be able to look to its intellectual and spiritual leaders for moderating counsel to support, not destroy the neutral temper of a great nation, bent on staying at peace. We are inclined to agree with the Crimson that there have been notable failures in this respect. . . . We believe that the direct interest of the undergraduates makes them equal in importance as a pressure group to their teachers, for all their prestige. Boston Transcript...
...House has drawn the first outline: the details are ready to be filled in. Before next fall gets much closer, Phillips Brooks House would do well to encourage a few graduate students to ring door bells, inspect rooms, and compare prices. Before long "one third of an ill housed nation" can be shaved to a quarter...