Word: constant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dramatic, in both diplomatic and military fields of the war, is so constant and absorbing, that the casual American tends to overlook the vital changes that are slowly and surely taking place in the relations between North and South America. The friendly spirit which has intermittently characterized our Latin American policy has been overshadowed by the tactlessness which we have shown on more than one occasion. The interpretation which certain of our Presidents have placed upon the Monroe doctrine, and our only too evident fondness for buying up available islands lying off the South American coast have been construed...
...fasting rather than a day of feasting. With many of us this will be making a virtue of necessity; but few thoughtful people will feel disposed to make the day one of hilarity. This is a grim and gray time, like the month in which Thanksgiving Day occurs. The constant sense of the country being at war is a drain on the Nation's spiritual forces, and such an anniversary is a time to renew those forces from which a people's moral strength is drawn. --Boston Globe...
...University that the staff photographers of the Illustrated didn't "catch." The current number, dated October 22 and appearing on time, is jammed with timely photographs. From the bond advertisement on the front cover to the patent medicine boost on the back, there are words and pictures for all constant subscribers to think over and look over seriously...
...proved ineffective in dealing with labor troubles, and in the present case the use of police or militay power as a means of coercion is impossible because of the widely scattered regions in which mining and farming are carried on. What is needed is some means of exerting a constant and universal pressure on the labor population as a whole. The mere arrest of leaders is not enough. The final solution of the problem must be constructive, rather, than has been the case thus far, destructive. Only in this way can those who deserve the severe treatment...
...charts have the endorsement of General Leonard Wood who went over them carefully with his aide, Lieut. Osmun; and many other Regular Army officers have spoken highly of them, including Major Constant Cordier, recently the commandant of the Harvard Regiment...