Word: reflecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...therefore, hope that President Coolidge may reflect upon these facts before the new law, which has been voted by the legislative bodies of America, comes into practical application...
...into the Atlantic City Convention, there is certainly nothing catclysmic in the reactions it arouses nearer home. To any one who has been associated, even in indirectly, with Mr. Geer, his views on school and college athletics appear so sane and logical that any opposition to them seems to reflect a strangely perverted point of view...
...administrative office can maintain a spirit of liberalism in the face of undergraduate bias, snobbery, or provincialism. Only by the origination and perpetuation of a tradition of student liberalism will the ideal college be translated into an actuality. Nor is it an answer that the undergraduate body can only reflect the spirit of the times. Since the middle ages Cambridge and Oxford have cherished a tradition of liberalism which has persisted despite eras of national bigotry and prejudice. Reform, like charity, begins at home, and from within rather than from without. The real guarantee against illiberalism must be evolved...
...Washington, and its virtues and vices reflect the character and habits of our people. The conditions there today are not due primarily to politics, nor to conscious dishonesty, but to the fact that men generally well-intentioned, facing strange conditions, under unaccustomed pressure, do not think straight. They do not think the ethics, the principles and the conventionalities of business through When an officer of the law makes a personal investment in a corporation which is liable to come before him officially and says that in the safe he lost money by it, a mass of the people acquit...
...definite settlement of the reparations problems. Constructive statesmanship rather than largesse is needed to bring about an economic readjustment of Europe; a real readjustment upon an equitable determination of the amount which Germany can actually pay. And by a concensus of expert opinion, which the Dawes report will undoubtedly reflect, that amount is very much less than the rather punitive sum fixed at Versailles...