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Word: trust (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...when not mistaken nor wilfully misled, can ever guarantee itself as righteous; and, secondly, because rights and wrongs are not vertically but horizontally stratified, and national boundaries are no longer,--can never be again,--ethical lines of cleavage. Are we more nearly divine than the other nations, that we trust ourselves to do always the right thing? No, indeed; moreover, our national desire to back righteousness varies inversely as our military power to do that which is good for us! Proof: Germany. Diplomatic history shows that the United States breaks its agreements when "essential to our vital interests." The only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Motives for Preparedness Unsound. | 1/4/1916 | See Source »

...delegates the objects of the association which are not to abolish college athletics but to make them better. He made a strong plea for courtesy and common sense and said that if the colleges keep, at the head of their athletics, men who try to be honest and who trust each other, half of the evils of intercollegiate athletics will die a natural death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE ATHLETICS DISCUSSED | 1/3/1916 | See Source »

...headquarters of the Belgian Relief Fund are at 426 Boylston street, Boston. Cheques should be sent to Joseph H. O'Neill, treasurer, Federal Trust Company, 85 Devonshire street, Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND ANNUAL APPEAL FOR RELIEF OF BELGIANS | 11/29/1915 | See Source »

...must not forget that money spent thus will go to strengthen international friendship and trust, and to lay deeper the foundations for future peace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTION WILL BE TAKEN AT HARVARD-YALE GAME | 11/13/1915 | See Source »

...That the University will grow and grow greatly," he said, "we cannot doubt. The are of great building is probably at an end, but we need a chemical laboratory, and we look forward to the time fifty years hence when the University will house practically all its students. We trust that the students body will become representative of the nation even more than it is now, and we hope that Harvard will have not only the admiration, but the affection of her sister universities. At my inauguration President Hadley referred to me as the President of our greatest University, which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT ELIOT AT DINNER OF NEW YORK HARVARD CLUB | 11/9/1915 | See Source »

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