Word: say
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prohibitionist you now say that any effort to impede the success of the federal amendment will drive the country to bolshevism. If you are on the other side of that question your point is that the failure to give people their liquor will turn them willy-nilly to bolshevism. We received many letters on the daylight savings movement in which the adherents of each side wanted it, not for their own comfort or convenience, but in order to save the country from bolshevism. The farmers would surely go over to that dread doctrine if the city dwellers luxuriously carved...
...parts of the actual texts of about fifty treaties for the last four centuries, and it is evident that the term "high contracting parties" is used in the same sense as the members of a debating society call themselves, 'we', when they draw up their constitution. That is to say, each member of the society is a high contracting party. Senator Knox says...
...fault of the English language, for there is no object to be gained by such substitution. The league cannot agree to anything until it is created by the high contracting parties. Carrying the analogy to the debating society further, it is submitted that it is entirely proper to say 'we agree that the society shall be intrusted etc.', but is unrhetorical to say the society agrees that the society shall be intrusted, etc.' The same misconception of the significance of the relation of these expressions is shown in the remainder of the speech which attempts to show that two separate...
...whether he be a Varsity man or a member of a class or whatever team, receive moral and physical benefit from any game in which he may play in proportion as he is taught and inspired to play that game to the limit of his ability. Therein, I should say, we exemplify the American university spirit, or, to put it more broadly, the national spirit...
...short a period has passed since the inauguration of this plan to determine whether it has helped improve the friendship between England and America. It is safe to say, however, that when fifty years have produced large numbers of Rhodes scholars in every state of the Union, there will be no doubt that the mutual understanding of national ideas produces national friendship which no complications can sever. So the scholarships offer an unparalleled opportunity today for public spirited...