Word: splits
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...advance, cuts directly through Manchuria, which is Chinese territory, and a German foothold there would mean disaster for China. Need for action must compel the Chinese to forget their present internal differences and unite as a nation. German propaganda, to be sure, has been spread in China, but the split between northern and southern provinces is due purely to Chinese politics. China is united at least in sentiment against Germany. Active resistance against the Germans, therefore, would not tend to continue the disruption, but would be the strongest possible argument for a reconciliation of the opposing factions and a permanently...
...aspects is the more important. The military defeat of Germany would destroy the militarism of the imperialists. On the other hand, a re-assertion on the part of all the allies of the principles of President Wilson and the new Russian democracy, as well as their actual interpretation, would split the democratic from the imperialistic elements in Germany. Such a movement would accomplish our armies in the war no less than military success. The United States does not have to go through three years of war to find out that it is fighting for far higher things than, for example...
...therefore commendable. There is no denying that "if Harvard in peace is an object of pictorial interest, Harvard at war is memorable." So, with an all-picture line-up, there is no prose in the first number to criticize except the explanatory editorial on page one, which includes a split infinitive...
...change of the language. Usage makes good English. Professor Wendell found it one of his tasks to impress the fact that usage does not require the sanction of generations to become "good usage" and therefore good English. He never professed horror at such a venial offence as a split infinitive. He was, in brief, eminently a man of common sense...
...mind, and that in the nature of the situation many worthy men must fail of election to them. The problem is not merely a student problem. It is the expression of an inherent human tendency. Maroon a hundred persons on a Pacific island and in a fortnight they will split into two or three groups. The English universities have a college system, and the world in which a man will live is determined by himself by his choice of a college. Many American schools have the fraternity system, notably Cornell, where there are more than half a hundred societies. Where...