Word: shortsightedness
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If this can be taken as an indication that Turkey is at last of a mind to gentle the high tone which she has hitherto assumed, the present Lausanne Conference may be able to complete its business satisfactorily within two or three weeks. It is possible that she has discovered...
Obstinacy. The third Marquis of Salisbury, father of Lord Robert Cecil, once made a speech at Oxford, in which he referred to his countrymen as the "English." The speech was interrupted by loud cries of "British!" "What aboot the Scots!" But Salisbury went doggedly ahead and continued to say "English...
I do not urge others to expect nor do I expect for myself a glorious career covered with public honor. No man can achieve very much by himself; just as in a war all men can not be generals; but unless that part of the community which has received great...
Dr. Samuel McChord Crothers, pastor of the First Unitarian Church, dwelt upon the history and traditions of Harvard as one of the university's most valuable attributes and emphasized the importance of knowing her great men and famous localities, and of recognizing the most truly characteristic and essential traits of...
As for the powers of the new Council: anyone who was in touch with the organization in the past knows that the defect of last year's Council was not its personnel--it was representative enough--but its careful observance of the limits of its authority; its punctilious avoidance of...