Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...solid bottom rock of the plan of the League of Peace is, therefore, the fact that though an association of moderately democratic countries has overcome the militaristic combine which tried to make itself the dominant power in the world, peace will leave the conquered countries in ruins, unless the solid, stable part of the world unites to set it in order and to give it the opportunity to grow into strength. A combination of nations has been found absolutely necessary to fight the war; without some combination of nations, there will be another war to fight before many years...
...character. Democracy of learning, which should mean scientific knowledge, technical skill, and spiritual culture must, in their elements, become the possession of every member of a democracy, else that democracy is not a reliable one and a permanent one. The governor of New Hampshire is striking at rock bottom. What we need in this world is less remedies and more precautions. Educate the peasant and the slave and less dupery shall exist. Certainly it is too late to elevate the laborer; educate rather the child. Open wide the door of opportunity; the ability and capability, of man await only...
...absence of Sir Henry Jones, of the University of Glasgow, again took the floor. He also dwelt on the value of the pure sciences, such as mathematics. To illustrate this he said that seven years ago he was on a commission to chart the currents at the bottom of the North Sea, an assignment apparently impractical. But in the war the British were able to place their mines, but ahead of the maps made by this commission, so that the mines drifted exactly where they were expected to. He spoke of the value of the classics, and said that although...
...fire on every inoffensive porpoise, and the Navy Department began to build 110-footers to go abroad and do our fighting there. Just when all was serene and quiet the Teuton struck and as usual he did a thorough job. About ten United States ships have gone to the bottom and still the U boats are at large...
...this order. While divinity students and students of the Medical School are not liable to military service, they must register and then be exempted by their local boards. It is provided that all persons registered under the provisions of the Act of May 20 shall be placed at the bottom of the list of those liable to draft in the classes to which they are assigned under such rules as President Wilson may prescribe...