Word: earth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Armenia depends for its life upon the immediate assistance of the Great Powers. This is no exaggeration--either we gain support today or tomorrow we are wiped from the earth. The Turks, and the Young Turkish party in particular, are reorganizing to absorb us again, and we are too exhausted to light them without outside support...
...This was, as I know, the possessing desire of his last months to end his days fighting for his country and for freedom of man in the earth...
...freedom of discussion of the university teacher should be that he act and speak as a scholar. The moment the thinking man is restricted in his thought half the value of his work is destroyed. You cannot say to Galileo, 'Use your telescope, but don't discover that the earth revolves about...
...said at the Astronomical laboratory that the suddenness with which stars disappear when the light is thus cut off by the disk of the moon bears witness to the lack of atmosphere on the earth's satellites. If there were any atmosphere they would be considerably dimmed just before their disappearance...
...futility of comparative scores should take the edge from our over-confidence, and when it is realized that Yale was without the services of her captain, we will be brought back to earth with a thud. Our team is a fighting aggregation, well grounded in the fundamentals. With the support of a loyal, but not overconfident student body, they will offer Yale and Princeton a sturdy battle. We face a stiff assignment; a double victory is not a sinecure...