Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Once a league is formed; once the world may be assured of our intentions in arming,--then America must do her share. If it is required of us, let us have an army of a million men and universal training. Then no danger of suspicion attaches to so radical a change in policy; but until then it is a stumbling-block in the road of the world's progress. HALLOWELL DAVIS...
...nations to do likewise; so that, not only are the resources of all the countries concerned taxed to the utmost, in the vain hope of successfully vying with one another in the up building of armaments, but the very act of increasing a country's military forces necessarily breeds suspicion in the minds of its neighbors, and inevitably results, sooner or later, in an armed clash. Thus Japanese and Australian militarism were given a decided impetus by President Roosevelt's somewhat jingoistic performance a few years ago, in sending our navy around the world. On the other hand, an unequivocal...
...situation has become so acute that these two sides of collegiate activity are completely estranged. The athlete and the scholar usually regard each other with mutual suspicion at first sight. Very few men indeed have been able to unite physical prowess and intellectual distinction, although last year's Phi Btta Kappa list contained some notable exceptions. There is no reason why every student should not follow their example to a certain degree, with the practically unlimited time at his disposal. For unless it is driven to an unhealthy extreme, neither work nor play need occupy more than half...
...suspicion that there were other causes responsible for the failing of the trees than beetles and bugs was recently substantiated. The net-work of the drain and hot-water pipes and other underground disturbances has greatly interfered with the action of the soil water and the behavior of the soil in general...
...seem extravagant--"amber arms," for instance--but on the whole his language and his metre are sound, and one feels that he has more of "the makings" than some of his more ambitious fellow-bards. Mr. Realers announces, perhaps prematurely, that his heart grows cold; his effort rouses a suspicion that he might glow more warmly in some more suitable medium than he has chosen here...