Word: righteous
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Abraham, conversing with the angel on the plan of Mamre, secured the promise that Sodom would be saved for the sake of ten righteous. The ten righteous were not found, and Sodom perished. We must expect that we--if we are Sodom, and the cowardly are righteous--will also perish, unsaved by our ten or so righteous. We may bear our doom gladly, if we first get rid or the righteous...
There are serious times ahead. Timid messages of caution or good-will are past. The Allies have had our sympathy and moral support for the last two years, but the righteous opportunity has come for us to change our attitude. From now on our every element of strength should be concentrated on the task of suppressing a military power that has long lost regard for the most fundamental and humane rights of other peoples. Sacrifices by American citizens must be made and they will be made readily and joyfully. Yet the sooner the American manufacturer, banker, professor, business...
...foreign exploitation? We have, since the Spanish-American War, embarked on a career of imperialism, which, together with the fact of the admitted aggression and exploitation of the Mexican War of 1846-1848, gives us little assurance that our politicians and diplomats will necessarily use such power for righteous purposes...
...flow of players from university to professional elevens, and all the accruing scandal and innuendo, not to mention other features which will readily occur to the average follower of college sports. How long would any self-respecting university stand such a condition? How long would it be before in righteous wrath intercollegiate football at many of our institutions would be torn up root and branch and cast into the scrap heap? The future of football as a sport has suddenly assumed a portentous aspect...
...They gained some intellectual training, perhaps, but more than that, they acquired ideals of service and traditions of bravery which peculiarly belong to Harvard. It was this early influence in part that sent them into the face of danger to defend what they personally considered a worthy and a righteous cause. It is not because these brave men made their sacrifices for either France or England that they should receive the respect of their alma mater, but because they showed the traditional bravery of Harvard men, by giving their very lives in defense of what they considered to be truth...