Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Times, hastily queried, vouched for the veracity of Mr. Eyre, secured from Wayne B. Wheeler (super-prohibitionist syndicated by the New York Times) a statement that Pussyfoot was certainly abroad, probably in Berlin...
...Origin of the Next War" begins with the statement that the World War failed completely as a war to end war, because international conflict as an institution did not cease. His short survey over post-war history makes us aware of the alarming fact that there have been wars of more or less importance in one part of the world or another ever since the Armistice. Inquiring into the causes of wars in general, Mr. Bakeless asserts that a complex chain of economic forces makes war almost inevitable in the modern world. "The general increase in population," he writes...
Increase of population, colonies, access to the sea, sea lanes, markets, food, and raw materials are thus the principle causes of rivalry between nations. Mr. Bakeless, however, does not content himself with this general statement, but outlines all the possible kinds of friction between various nations today and the potentiality of a new world war in each of them. For there is no isolation in the modern world. Mr. Bakeless foresees that, in the near future, the United States will lose its favorable isolation, as England lost here during the past twenty years. The greatest value of this book...
Sunday afternoon I went for a walk. To which succinct statement of pure and unadulterated fact you may reply, "What of it?"--or if you are a member of the Watch and Ward Society--"What in it?" Well, I'll permit you, but on one condition: that you tell me just why I met so many people with cameras and kodaks and the urge to use them. Before I had gone two blocks I felt like the man in the moving picture who wanted to find someone in a Ford. Fords--I mean cameras, were everywhere. Little girls tripped...
Sunday afternoon I went for a walk. To which statement of pure and unadulterated fact you may reply, "What...