Word: overturning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Added to the indignity of insufficient credit, the American minister abroad sees hurled at him the insult of party domination and political interference. It has come about that nearly every overturn at Washington must be followed by the recall or resignation of the greater part of our Ambassadors. Statistics have been compiled showing that, with one exception, none of the diplomatic representatives from this country to important posts in Europe at the outbreak of the war had had the slightest diplomatic experience previous to their appointments. In sharp contrast to this state of affairs, the consuls and ministers from Great...
...times of industrial strife and labor troubles which threaten to overturn existing institutions, it is in a way comforting to remember that the problem is not a new one. More than once before nations have been thrown into a turmoil because of capital-labor controversies and they have recovered. As one encouraging example of this truth, we reprint here a statement made by Daniel Webster in 1828, which seems particularly pertinent...
Some weeks ago the press of the whole country burst forth with the jubilating news that an invention had been discovered which would throttle the submarine menace, and overturn fortresses and whole armies. A member of the Naval Consulting Board admitted modestly that this machine of victory was the product of our own well-known Yankee ingenuity and ability. We as modestly accepted the admission...
...Germany, and a shallow sentimentality for imperial-made socialism, America will be driven to fight thrice as hard. Much treasure will be consumed, irrevocable months will be lost, and many thousands of our brave countrymen meet death that Russia may be freed from the threat of that which may overturn her new found liberty...
...will change human life all over the globe. The hackneyed question as to how it will affect poetry is of little consequence, for the great European struggle will not decide whether we are to write in sonnet form or in vers libre, but will overturn principles and theories that have been adhered to for centuries...