Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...games, and particularly the Yale game, offer the most desirable means of direct contact with Harvard. Transformations like that in the Yale Bowl six weeks ago are the only visible and memorable representation of current Harvard life to many unfamiliar with general University advance. There seems to be no reason why Harvard should not have accommodations for the graduates who flood the ticket office with applications in losing seasons as well as in winning ones...
...German High Command, I prefer to believe TIME. We have not yet forgotten how Feld Marshal von Machensen, et al, broke their pledged word, as evinced by solemn treaty, and invaded Belgium without any right except that of might. If their word was of no value in 1914 what reason have we to believe that the leopard has changed his spots? The same stricture applies to the occupant of Doom in an even stronger sense...
...courts except in form, save insofar as the general will accepts them. No law which has to do with human thought or speech or conduct can by any possibility be enforced. . . . If it be urged that all statutes . . . that have the form of law have also by reason of that very fact the full force and authority of law, then one can only sigh and repeat softly the immortal words of Mr. Bumble:* 'If the law supposes that, the law is a ass, a idiot . . . and the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened...
...cash is for France to ratify the Mellon-Berenger debt funding agreement, in which all the debts of France to the U. S. are merged and spread over 62 years. Thus far a stubborn French Parliament has refused to ratify-and the standing $400,000,000 bill is another reason why Frenchmen are unsympathetic toward Signer Klotz...
...spite of superficial resemblances, she was the very opposite of her most dangerous enemy-the weaving spider of the Escurial. Both were masters of dissimulation and lovers of delay; but the leaden foot of Philip was the symptom of a dying organism, while Elizabeth temporized for the contrary reason-because vitality can afford to wait. The fierce old hen sat still, brooding over the English nation, whose pullulating energies were coming swiftly to ripeness and unity under her wings. She sat still; but every feather bristled; she was tremendously alive...