Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...next obligatory step in the novel national career sprung upon us so abruptly by the President, and which Mr. Roosevelt considers it to be a sort of treason now to oppose. There are enough of us who believe that the development of such a national career would be pregnant of calamity for civilization. Men at the student-age are easily swayed by phrases. But I trust that no catch-words or nicknames will deter Harvard students who have once made up their minds adversely on the general question, from beginning the fight just at this very point, and doing what...
...this is in no wise true of such as bring about enduring political changes. So during our own Revolution, though the quarrel certainly began about a point of law, yet the enthusiasm which carried it through disaster and privation to success was kindled and kept alive by the few pregnant abstractions into which the genius of Jefferson had condensed the principles of Bodin and Sidney and the eloquence of Rousseau. No wiser man, according to the wisdom of the world, ever lived than Goethe, and he said, "Woe to the man who has trampled on the dreams of his youth...