Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual literary exercises of the society in Sanders Theatre yesterday, outlined the struggle in this country between idealism and commercialism, stressed the revolution through which the world is passing, and placed his confidence for the future in the American Legion. Citing famous examples of the practical lifted into the sphere of idealism. Mr. Page began with the early history of the United States, of Virginia and of the Plymouth colony, showing the importance of religion in the colonial days, and commenting on history...
...less true that in this particular sphere of international irritation we are the representative of the rest of the civilized nations. Because of the Monroe Doctrine no European nation can act in Mexico without our sanction. We are then or at any rate ought to be internationally responsible for conditions in the land of perpetual revolution...
...Lloyd George, however, has some understanding of political conditions in this country, and is not altogether led astray by Senatorial ebullitions. Although his analogy between De Valera and Jefferson Davis seems to give too much credit to the former, it serves to remind the Senate of its proper sphere of operations. By rejecting the League of Nations, the Senate announced its intention to stay at home and mind nobody's business but its own. Surely such an announcement is somewhat inconsistent with the Irish resolution, whereby the same Senate plunges its finger, nay, its whole fist into the international...
...Governor Lowden's experience in the sphere of politics has been marked by his strict adherence to the underlying principles of true Americanism, and his persistent endeavor to co-operate with the people in every conceivable manner. As early as 1887 the fame of his integrity as a lawyer had spread broadcast throughout the Western and Middlewestern States. As a believer in the principles and policies of the Republican Party, Governor Lowden has been exceedingly active and influential in the councils of the State of Illinois and of the nation...
Many a time and oft in the Rialto and the Rivoli have we sat and wondered why the Pioneers of 47 and the Workshop had never been disputed in their dramatic sphere of influence in Cantabrigia. At last the money-changers of the Rialto are to come to our relief and change our dollar bills into half-dollars and rain-checks, and when the student of Philosophy is perplexed in the future with the problem "Why change your wife?" he can solve this problem without the help of any Widow, by sitting in at the Harvard Square student's latest...