Word: offending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such a court is directly in line with the aims of the most ardent internationalists; yet it cannot offend the more conservative, because it involves no responsibility on the part of the United States. It is through compromises of this sort that friendly intercourse and better understanding among nations can most readily be encouraged...
...system more heinous than grammatical innaccuracy or "lowbrow" talk. But the misuse of the English language so prevalent on every college campus indicates, deeper down, a state of laxity reigning over almost every branch of conduct. Men whose conversation is deficient either in grammar or in taste not only offend their hearens but reveal themselves incapable of verbal self-control...