Word: respect
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Finally, Mr. Paine's idea that we could not have insisted on our rights at the time the Lusitania was sunk without causing war, because Germany was ready to defy us, is immediately refuted by his following statement that Germany has later respected them. It is unfortunate that this time the Democrats cannot "both eat their cake and have it too." If Germany had been so ready to defy us, she wouldn't have yielded up her profitable submarine campaign. Her final yielding, however, which was due more to respect for the power of the aroused American people than...
...University men who have lost their lives in the European war, and in recognition of those men who are still engaged in various branches of activity in that war. "If these men see us here now they will appreciate it, for we owe them our gratitude and our respect. They have done a great thing, and we shall be the better for it. This influence which they have had will never perish, but always be remembered by the men of the University...
...England, and thence to Gallipoli. We see the troops land and watch them fighting in the trenches and in "no-man's land," or trying to rest in their dug-outs. We grow to admire the British Tommy--Scotchman, Irishman, Newfoundlander, Canadian, Anzac or city-bred Londoner; and to respect the heathen Turk, his honest enemy...
Weakness in the maintenance of just rights invites attack. The best guarantee of peace is the respect of other nations. The first step to regain this respect is to elect a man who is adequately vertebrated and who is energetically American
...what has actually been shown--Yale has a much more varied offense than the Tigers, and a defence which is, I think, just as good. The Elis have done their share of fumbling, but they would have had to do more than their share to equal Princeton in this respect. Yale's punting has not to date compared with that of Princeton, and Princeton's drop-kicking has been superior. Yale employs her men to better advantage in interference than Princeton, and, in general, impresses one with the belief that she has a harder kick to her attack. All this...