Word: worldly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...decision of the judges was quickly and unanimously rendered in favor of Harvard. However, the Yale men were strong speakers and presented an effective case. The University team won largely because their case was based on the consideration of the interests of the whole civilized world, while their opponents considered only the interests of the United States. Harvard's contention was that under the conditions presupposed in the question the European power had an unquestionable right to seize territory of the debtor state to the amount of the award. The denial of that right by the United States would...
...European countries, but also will it teach South American states invaluable lessons, and support the great principles of arbitration; it will give to the United States a position unique among nations; it will show European nations that there is one nation above the selfish desires of the old world...
...history of Europe has been a history of wars and quarrels between neighboring states. The United States, on the other hand, protected from all dangerous neighbors by 3000 miles of ocean, has been free to devote all its energy to making of itself the greatest industrial nation of the world. The resolution of the a affirmative means that the United States shall give up its priceless isolation and allow Europe not only coaling stations but great bases of operation from which may be attacked our mainland, Porto Rico and the Panama Canal. It means too that we shall expose ourselves...
...take the home of the bankrupt. Once allow a European state a foot-hold in South America and it will be impossible to prevent its taking more and more or even destroying the republics. The justice of the Monroe Doctrine has been recognized by England, Germany, all the world. Why abandon it now when there is no necessity of so doing; why abandon the policy of Washington and Jefferson, of Webster and Lincoln, of Cleveland and Roosevelt; the one great policy for which the United States has stood for 80 years? Why do all this for a paltry claim...
...World's Work--"The Carnegie Institute of Washington," by D. C. Gilman...