Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...creature of national policy. If a nation cherishes policies which impair the freedom and prevent the development of other nations, it is bound to arm in self-protection against the resentment and the fear of other nations. It may agree temporarily to limit its armament, provided those who suffer from its aggression or are opposed to its pretensions agree to a similar limitation. But in that event disarmament is an advantage to the aggressor. It frees his hand. The helplessness of China has provided her aggressors with their opportunity. In the end she must manage to protect herself...
...wish to be misunderstood. I understand the more obvious reasons, at least, why we should fight the strike. It is because some consider it a strike as a result of which the public--an evidently though not actually innocent party--will suffer. If any man entertains this opinion and wishes to aid in breaking the strike (which probably won't come off) let him do so as an individual. The group should not be called "the Harvard Unit". Meetings for the instruction of prospective strike breakers should not be held on college grounds or if so held it should...
...dances from "Marouf" by Rabaud suffer in concert presentation. Their oriental monotony becomes occidental monotony, and the contrast they make to the rest of this charming opera cannot be realized. True there are some extremely clever orchestral effects, but the ballet and settings are felt to be lacking. The highly contrapuntal climax does not "sound" through with the clarity of the rest of the opera. "Marouf" has been performed in its entirely in New York, and at the Opera Comisue in Paris...
...numbers to study in our educational institutions. Provided the Washington authorities are given satisfactory evidence in each instance that the applicant is a bona fide student, and that he (or she) does not intend to take up a permanent residence in the United States, the public interest will not suffer if the three per cent quota is exceeded by a few hundreds or thousands...
...power. Between our acts and our future joys and sorrows, he believed, there is unswerving correspondence; an exact balance is ordained between our sins and their punishment, between our merits and their rewards. As with the individual, so with society; if the world be wicked, it shall suffer; if it redeem itself, it shall be happy. As a basis of moral strength, neither science nor philosophy has yet invented a substitute for absolute faith in responsibility and justice...