Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...friends, the radicals, are organized and working to the best of their ability; the only sane thing to be done, then, is for the rest of us--stodgy old fools--who still cling to the belief that before you tear down you must be ready to build up once more--to organize as well, and thereby set a few back-fires...
...world lies in work and work alone." The destructionist and obstructionist Red can cool his head and his head in the outer office for a while. The world is too busy building up to stop and listen to those whose sole object in life seems to be to tear down...
Statesmen may deplore the evils of the times; bolsheviks may at any moment tear society asunder; thirsty lips may forever be parched. But if all these disasters do not destroy the spark of humor in mankind, then life will be worth living after...
...from books, nor can it all be put into words. Americanization has been defined as the "grafting of the best ideals of the new world onto the best ideals of the old." In this spirit only must all citizens approach the crises of the day. Without it they will tear the structure of American society asunder...
With the academically dead and dying scattered untidily all over The Hill, the cause of good scholarship is shedding a discreet tear just behind the scenes. Causes and alibis for "busting," and pro-bations are more plentiful than ever, but none answer the damning indictment that too much of Cornell has been guilty of intellectual slovenliness during the past term...