Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ever since the War, the Govern-ment has been desiring to avoid this loss. But the Government has been prevented from disposing of its fleet to private owners because of its insistence on two things-a good price for its ships (or at least a fair price) and a U. S. merchant service to all the more important parts of the world, a thing which means maintaining a number of unprofitable lines...
Independence is a good thing, but it needs to be approached with circumspection, else in the capturing it yields and entirely vanishes. But many-a great many-Filipino politicians are not concerned with independence, for the advocacy of it gains their ends; and to achieve independence would deprive them of their easiest road to office. So they play with the independence idea and, with a true gift for the dramatic, dress it in a thousand garbs and adorn it with a thousand gestures. Now they squabble with the Governor General; now they send themselves a-junketing to Washington; always they...
Charles E. Hughes sat at his desk, enjoying his judicio-diplomatic calm. The world was spread out before his mind's eye. Before him was the western hemisphere; and the eastern hemisphere (on account of the peculiar arrangement with which the perplexing thing was made) stretched both east and west of the western hemisphere. To a less keen, less perceptive mind that arrangement would have seemed dumfounding...
Satirists and cynics make meat of a certain fact of human nature-the difference between a man's opinions before taking office and after. But that difference is a natural thing. For a man's opinions before taking office are likely to be a compound of his desires-his desire for office and his desire for what he believes should be done; and his opinions afterward are likely to be determined by the exigencies of office, by the pressure of responsibility and by the restrictions of practicability...
...extraordinary thing about Napoleon is the perpetual interest which his name evokes. Let anything from a horse's hoof to a pyramid be found that has the remotest connection with him-and the daily press gives it a place of honor on the front page; and the Sunday editions immediately put on weight. Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne and one or two more of the better known empire-builders-where are they compared to the great Buonaparte? Dim and distant figures. Time may be re- sponsible for this inequity in interest. But not even the Duke of Wellington...