Word: stressfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pacifism is described as "Gotten on cowardice by misplaced idealism in the emotional stress of the war." I have a vague notion that if I could grasp the meaning of that phrase, I should most certainly disagree with it. Pacifism, in some cases, may have been used as a cloak to hide cowardice but it has grown out of clear-cut, highminded thinking and has been fostered by a greater courage and a more noble...
...unfortunate that such can find only the word pacifism to describe their movement. Gotten on cowardice by misplaced idealism in the emotional stress of war, the first light it saw was very dark indeed, and the principle acts, or inactions, committed in its name have damned it eternally for the many heroes and heroines who have sustained through war the bitter loss of their more heroic...
Deputy Aragona, head of the Italian Labor Federation, was not optimistic. Said he: "This Fascista labor union conception is a fiasco. To be sure, there is a compact in which a commission of five is nominated, but in times of great stress these agreements become scraps of paper. The conflict between capital and labor is not a question of production, but one of distribution of earnings. To work more and to produce more-both capital and labor are agreed upon this, but, how much is to go to the capitalist and how much to the workman-there is the inevitable...
...modern Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) has no Dlchterbund (literally, league of poets-school) to interpret national aspirations. It has produced neither a Schiller nor a Goethe, but it has created a Herr Hugo Stinnes...
...Keep football under your hats all the time", was the counsel of Captain-elect Greenough to nearly a hundred candidates for next year's eleven at the Varsity Club last night. His statement voiced the spirit of the entire gathering. Every speaker laid stress on the fact that all the most successful teams think football all the time. "Notre Dame," said Coach J. L. Knox '98, "thinks football twelve months and plays it nine months a year...