Word: warded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is a certain amount of truth on both sides. The best way to straighten the matter out, perhaps, is to analyze the different types of force, since force must be taken into consideration. They are three in number. Force used for attack, which is aggression; force used to ward off-attack, which is defence; and police force to maintain law and order. The first two are disastrous, and if we can do away with the first the second will follow as a matter of course. The last, police force, is good, and is the only practical use of force...
...Cummings Jr., Chairman, Miss Leonora Trafford; J. M. Forbes, Miss Ethel Cummings, Charles Brewer Jr., Miss Dorothy Brewer; E. G. Lund, Miss Margaret Houghton; S. M. Weld, Miss Faith Ward; S. C. Badger, Miss Mary Bancroft...
...Lawrence Lowell, Mrs. Charles Francis Adams, Mrs. George Wiggles worth, Mrs. Robert DeC. Ward, Mrs. Roger B. Merriman, Mrs. E. C. Moore, Mrs. Frederick Allen, Mrs. David M. Little, Jr., Mrs. C. N. Greenough, Mrs. G. W. Gram, Mrs. Harold Murdock, Mrs. N. Penrose Hallowell, Mrs. Ellerton P. Whitney, Mrs. Bernard W. Trafford, Mrs. Thomas R. Watson, Mrs. Edgar Crocker, Mrs. Matthew Luce, Mrs. Edward A. Whitney...
...rest of us may profit by their example. Our business men could perhaps be lured to the White House by a symphony concert, the House of Lords may soon be opening its deliberations with a performance of "The Mikado", and all political speeches made in the style of Artemus Ward. Before long statesmanship will consist in perpetual conferring at attractively situated resorts. The nine Muses bid fair to make a complete conquest of the seven great Powers...
...voluntary addresses on modern problems, or remember the difficulties that the Liberal Club has met with in getting recognition among undergraduates perhaps we are not as open minded as we like to believe. It is only by thoughtful consideration of each new movement as it arises, that we can ward off such charges as those suggested in the Nation...