Word: safe
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...seeming assurance that the people who are having cold shivers for fear of the Bolsheviks can now go to bed in safety, and expect to wake up in the morning with their houses undemolished by bombs. The world, when one comes right down to it, is a pretty safe and sane old place, after...
Having been induced to fight a costly war in the hope of getting rid of the need for military training, we are now advised that this war, far from making the world safe for democracy, has only emphasized the need for more extensive preparation than this nation has ever before witnessed. We were told, in fact, that, unless we went to war, we should have to organize the nation on a military basis in order to protect ourselves from an aggressive Germany. The implication was that the alternative would be freedom from this incubus which has-drained the treasuries...
Between the Scylla of Radical Americanization and the Charybdis of Reactionary Americanization lies the only safe course the country can pursue, Radicalism disjoints, conservatism retards progress. The Americanism which most of us are prepared to support is not the monopoly of any political party; it is that element in all political parties which causes them to work--in so far as they do work--for the national benefit as they understand it. It is not learned entirely from books, nor can it all be put into words. Americanization has been defined as the "grafting of the best ideals...
...educated in the heart alone at the expense of the head and common sense. Fanatics are obsessed with emotions and visions. They do not think straight--often they do not think honestly. Radical reformers are too often filled with so many emotions as altogether to lose sight of the safe and sane. The difference between a genius and a fanatic is the difference between emotion tempered with reason and emotion without the calm which comes from a true education and the proper use of the brain. The world is troubled with an abnormal education of the heart and too little...
...either congenitally or congenially interesting. Among the few groups that are resting easy in a serene consciousness of good work well done, with not much more to do, is the fraternity or the sorority, of those who feel that they have at last helped to make the colleges safe for the young man. That a college is a wild and wicked place, and that of all colleges Harvard has been for years the wildest and wickedest, has been a fond belief in some of the dryest circles in the country. Days of profligacy and nights of drunkenness were supposed...