Word: whole
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Board may well be worth more to the nation in accomplishment than a whole army corps, and Dean Gay more than a skilled tactician...
From the first I was impressed by the amount of space allotted to verse in the Advocate--a paper with poetic traditions, if ever paper had them--and I cannot see why one whole issue should not be devoted to it from time to time. Surely it is not necessary to remind the editors that the qualities that make vital all literature exist in what we roughly classify as poetry, to a far higher degree than in what, with equal roughness, we classify as prose. As an ex-editor, I sympathize with their professional zeal for "balance," while realizing that...
...relief now and again in the universal talk about armament for war to remember that the whole world is not forever doomed to fighting. War is a preparation for peace; we must bear in mind even now that our goal is a more enduring peace, and plan for the resumption of our normal lives when the abnormal tension has been relieved...
...hope of a peace based upon national tolerance has led us to take up arms against that government which wills no peace and comprehends no tolerance. Is there now one statesman so unwise as to say we lack ideals, that our only thought is of gain while the whole world bleeds...
...from the long waits usual on such occasions. It seems hardly necessary to add that great credit is due those responsible for the production, for this time the performance really speaks for itself. It is fairly rare that a first night goes off with such smoothness and on the whole with such distinction. CUTHBERT WRIGHT...