Word: trustful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Commission has voluntarily gone further than formality and friendship would demand, and in visiting representative cities of the country it has introduced the people in person to France. That act of cordiality will not be valueless. An awakened trust in that brave republican nation which now is fighting for its very life against the enemies of all free governments has arisen in America. We remember, as we might have in idleness forgotten, the help rendered by the sword of Lafayette in our own hour of need...
...young men who some day trust they will do something this careless world will not forget, Harvard men will be stirred to see this man who has saved a nation. There will be few enough in life to attain to greatness. Joffre has attained it in fame while republics yet live on the earth...
Progress toward the summum bonum in education has been slow during the last five thousand years but nevertheless it has been encouraging. We may trust the time will soon come when the great high schools of the country will give courses in merchandising, emphasizing the practical side of it, of course, as for example, teaching the eager youth of the country how to dispose of dry goods in the basement for five dollars that goes begging on the first floor at two dollars and fifty cents...
...allies. Well known citizens and respected professors such as Ralph Barton Perry and Albert Bushnell Hart have given quite free rein to their own opinions, though they were definitely pro-ally--and it is right that they should. Do you suggest that they should be "investigated" or silenced? I trust not. If democracy means anything it means a tolerant hearing even for fanatics, and most certainly for those who are endeavoring to be neither pro-German nor pro-ally in these awful times, but simply American. . . . . W. HARRIS CROOK...
Referendum has not yet proved to be a sure method for discovering what is good for a people. There are too many men who vote by personal preference or prejudice. In this critical moment we must put some trust in the leaders we have chosen and at the same time realize as must of our individual responsibility to our country as we can. ELMER M. ELLSWORTH...