Word: whine
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...beaten bully is again howling for mercy. The latest whine of the German peace delegation declares the treaty framed by the Versailles Conference to be "more than the German people can bear." Count von Brockdorff-Rautzau asserts: "the more deeply we penetrate into the spirit of this treaty, the more convinced we become of the impossibility of carrying it out." This statement makes us wonder in what spirit of liberality a victorious German government would have imposed peace terms. At the end of the Franco-Prussian War, France pleaded in vain. Two of her fairest provinces were torn from...
...this time when Boston is economically and socially seeking to forget the whine of peace-loving individuals, the least we at College can do is to set aside pacific pettiness (as exemplified in recent communications to the CRIMSON) and look at our problem of setting back the College time-table in its war-time setting...