Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those who come after. A will is the most real kind of ghost, one which it is hard to "lay". Any endowed organization has had its difficulties with clauses made to fit one set of conditions, and made inflexible against all change by their binding nature. A simple phrase, "at the discretion of the administrator", makes a will adaptable to circumstances, but testators are sometimes careless and often stubborn, and without some such loophole even the courts are powerless...
...action is covered by a carefully ambiguous phrase: it has been "deemed expedient". A few newspapers characterize the act as cowardice. That, at least, is absurd: whatever may be said of it as a matter of theory, it is in perfect consistency with our present foreign policy, and until that is amended, we should ask nothing else...
Harvard, to use a shop-worn phrase, is not a school for irresponsible boys, but a University. Correction and discipline there must be; but at the same time there should also be an understanding and appreciation of undergraduate difficulties, especially those of the men to whom the University's complex rules and institutions are a comparatively unknown quantity. A word of friendly advice offered in time is worth more in building up individual effort and interest than many years of probation and "E"s.- provided, of course, that men can be found with the time and inclination to give...
While England has, with an audible sign of relief, exchanged an erratic genius for a recognized party regime. Italy has discovered a man. "The right man for the emergency" is a phrase quoted by habitual optimists. Like all such phrases, however, it frequently fails to hold true. To be sure, above the turbulent noises of war some fortunate countries heard the voice of a master. With the British armies reduced to the most extreme danger from lack of shells. England, appalled at the vastness of the problem baulked at the undertaking till she found, in her recently rejected Premier...
...Shelley? Or did they never realize this relation? Do they not consider the substitution of eighty for one, two, or three elements, the substitution of a chemical change for the old idea of escaping phlogistin, superlatively important points in our consideration of the "scientific system"?--abused, ignorantly used phrase! Or do they consider that discarded ideas are merely things to pity, laugh at, and forget? Have they no conception of the social changes affecting the philosophical outlook and life of nations, wrought by scientific progress? Or do they think these mere trifles? Would they give us no warning of that...