Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Unit is in no way an obstacle in the way of any movement for world peace; in fact, as Colonel Browning, the commandant of the local unit, pointed out in your columns recently, it is a strong force for peace; but not, may it be plainly understood, for peace at any price. It is military, but at the same time non-militaristic; for the underlying theory of Citizen's Military Training (and of this general movement, the R. O. T. C. has always been a part) is Preparedness for defence. In a practical way also...
...question of non-participation in war will be debated from a thoroughly modern viewpoint. Members of both the Liberal Club and the Military Science Department are expected to attend the meeting, and should take an active part in the discussion. It is even understood that a resolution will be proposed from one side of the house advocating the abolition of the Military Science Department at Harvard...
...Prague, who lead the Bohemian reformation a hundred years before Luther. When Huss was bound to the stake after his condemnation by a Catholic Council, a peasant woman brought a little bundle of fagots and cast them on the pile that the fire might burn more fiercely. Huss understood that she did this, not because she was a wicked woman, but because she was frightened. She really believed Huss was the enemy of God. Huss murmured "Sancta simplicitas"-holy simplicity. Upset, frightened, scared to look religious questions in the face-thus Dr. Parks pictures many of the fundamentalists. His book...
...Morgan declared: "If the ruling classes only make a similar effort, France soon will be invincible in the economic domain. In any case, we shall always be at her side, and sustain her when necessary." Mr. Morgan evidently understands the French psychology very well; said he: "It is quite understood that Germany must pay you." He went on to state that nothing in the French situation prior to the fall of the franc justified a panic; that in fact France's national wealth had increased greatly during the past two years. The attack on the franc by France...
...giving his reasons for the prominence and publicity attached to the actions of groups of students who have signed pledges to refrain from fighting, Colonel Browning said "Pacifism as that word is generally understood, I am inclined to think is not something that the majority of intelligent people take much stock in. The reason we hear so much about it is because the subject is put forward by what I consider an organized minority, and we don't hear anything from the unorganized majority...