Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Because Senator Harding has stated that he intends, if elected, to make a separate peace with Germany, a "peace without victory" in the full sense of that unfortunate phrase...
...league is not the paramount issue of the day. He knows that the possibility of war is what makes a league--some kind of a league--necessary but does the question ever rise in his mind as to what causes war? Does anybody with sense suppose that the phrase "a war to end war" was anything but mob psychology practically applied? Is "democracy" as "safe" in the world today, with nations drunk with militarism and bloated in their national self-aggrandizement, as it was before the war? My friends there are certain economic and social conditions that maintain this monstrous...
...much for new arguments as for an accurate definition of existing issues and their relative importance is the address notable. Mr. Hoover does an especial service in placing the league problem--important as it is--in its true perspective to the broader issue of the campaign. In his telling phrase...
There is a fine quality of phrase in James E. Agate's "Responsibility" (Doran), as well as a thoughtful turning over of ideas, a delight in ideas for their own sakes...
...Evening up the decision" is a phrase used in baseball when the umpire makes a bad judgment on a certain play, and, shortly afterward, realizing his error, gives an equally bad decision on a close play for the opposing team. A week or so ago President Eliot saw fit to criticize the United States Military Academy at West Point, and this week feeling perhaps that he should have begun at home accuses the Harvard students of being "Woozy." The CRIMSON and the University have always had the utmost respect for President Eliot, who, by his actions and words has ever...