Word: noblest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will in all probability be the first of a series of great efforts to convince the people of the United States of the wisdom of his doctrine. Whether or not we agree with the details of the plan we must confess that the motive behind it is of the noblest--the abolition of useless war. Let us hear him first and then judge the advisability of entering the world compact...
...field of political satire, such as the two series of Bigelow Papers, he had a theme and a method precisely suited to his temperament. No American has approached Lowell's success in this difficult genre: the swift transitions from rural Yankee humor to splendid scorn of evil and to noblest idealism reveal the full powers of one of our most gifted...
...that he had been touched deeply by greatness and wore the mark of it with unconcern; not that he was the noblest friend of honesty and common sense and the ruthless foe of cant, unfairness, untruth and un-Americanism; not that he took always the most dangerous part for himself; not that he was a man of splendid human qualities; not for anything that can be set down in words, but for something to which his deeds and attributes and heroism all pertained--for himself we loved...
...memorial will be of value to humanity. That the memory of a life spent in seeking excellence should be kept alive by an incentive to develop the same trait in other men must bring widespread approval. Just as in studies or in outside activities, Meeker sought to act on noblest principles, so finally he sacrificed himself, following that path his conscience pointed out. To honor one who did his best even though it led to the grave this scholarship is established...
...wounded, whose life or whose last comfort depends on the ministration of trained healers. Ambulance drivers, nurses, hospital attendants, they all, without even that indirect share in the devastation which we may lay on a munitions worker help in the work which is to be done in the noblest way that may be done...