Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...times of industrial strife and labor troubles which threaten to overturn existing institutions, it is in a way comforting to remember that the problem is not a new one. More than once before nations have been thrown into a turmoil because of capital-labor controversies and they have recovered. As one encouraging example of this truth, we reprint here a statement made by Daniel Webster in 1828, which seems particularly pertinent...
...this turmoil and confusion comes a brighter day; a day when barriers of mountains and rivers and oceans will not divide the feelings and the interests of the inhabitants of the nations of the world. We will have a family of nations, as closely linked as they have been divided up to now. We will have common aims and common aspirations. We will forget the bitterness in our hearts at the tragedies of the past; and in our striving for a brighter future, there will be one principle which will unite the hearts and souls of men and women...
Such a move will be greatly appreciated by our college men. Permission to stay, even for a very short while, inside those universities, which have been a centre of intellectual progress for many centuries, will make a welcome change from the turmoil and worries of the front. Many Americans have no friends abroad with whom they can spend their leaves-of-absence, and since they are unable, unlike English-men to return home, any opportunity to breathe again a college atmosphere is certain to be eagerly sought. In a country where everyone is a stranger, a familiar environment helps...
...distinguished author, a keen critic of public life and a leading psychologist, his loss, too great to be realized when civilization is in a turmoil, will be estimated fairly in the future, when judgment is less biased by partisan feeling...
...have not space here to repeat my views as to the weakness of his case against the President, especially in regard to the Lusitania outrage and the Mexican turmoil, which have already been stated in a letter to the New York Times, November 5; all that I can point out hre is that in the very tone and method of his campaign, Mr. Hughes has utterly failed to exhibit those qualities of mind and heart which seem to me most needed in the present day spokeman of the American people...