Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...because they all use illegal means to crush the enemy? It would be exactly as reasonable as though one were to refuse to distinguish between the angry man and the murderer because they both wish evil; or between a covetous man and a thief, because they both desire a neighbor's property...
...Mars keep his exclusiveness. Let him keep his frozen colds. Let him keep his red grass and his last icy immersion. Even though he does belong to a family older than ours by some million years, even if he is a more remote neighbor of the garish sun, even if he is a gentleman, yet we can get along without replies to our wireless greetings, nor smiles to our heliographed winks. We can get along without Mars. Mars is so cold he would freeze alcohol...
...evening's hockey game is an example. The players of McGill University should be greeted with all friendliness and respect, for their opinion of the reception we give them will go a long way towards promoting or hindering the cordiality which should exist between the United States and her neighbor to the north. It is much more than an intercollegiate contest. It is a contest between two traditions of the sport, and in a certain sense between two countries. Too often this sort of competition is marred by a distorted patriotism which takes the form of hatred and prejudice against...
...recently been sent out by a committee of American educators, asking some five hundred colleges to provide special scholarships for Mexican students in this country. One hundred replies have already been received promising positive or tentative co-operation in this plan for the educational reconstruction of our unhappy neighbor to the south. This enterprise, if completed, would be of greater value to both countries than the despatching of an army to the border. It is one of the few really constructive measures which have been proposed for the rehabilitation of Mexico. We are familiar with the results accomplished...
...alike, each according to the best of his ability. The camps provide the machinery for the operation of a system of universal military training under exclusive federal control. At present, however, they rest upon a voluntary basis, upon a basis which permits one man to volunteer to fight his neighbor's battles for him, and which allows the employer to "volunteer" the services of his employees to do his fighting for him. This is not only undemocratic but un-American and must be corrected if this nation is to endure...