Word: midst
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...After dinner we visited Harvard, the great and glorious university, whose wish it was to have King Albert become a Doctor of Laws. Harvard is situated in the midst of a suburb of Boston, at Cambridge, which is a sort of small paradise of quietness, an oasis of green foliage where it must be delightful to study and to dream...
...vanquished nation requiring especial watching but as a finally vindicated nation, on exactly the same moral basis as all the rest. But surely she should not be admitted until she has satisfied all the other contracting nations that she is a new Germany, worthy of a place in their midst...
...major national problem these foreigners in our midst will loom in importance, as war problems fade. This task, indeed, will be the central one of reconstruction. No man knew this fact better nor preached its needs more consistently than Theodore Roosevelt. His recommendation should be our guarantee of its importance...
Some such program should have been advanced long ago. We have gone on long enough fostering these little nationalities in our midst, all but encouraging them to organize, sometimes even withholding the means of their becoming acquainted with our language and institutions. Employers have often found that ignorant foreign labor was cheaper than American labor. Through this indifference of ours to the process of naturalization arose a large part of the trouble which the Department of Justice and the Secret Service have had with the "hyphenated Americans" during...
...sure civilization has struggled up in the midst of destructive wars, and was apparently never so flourishing as in the spring of 1914. The course of the war, however, has gone far to convince mankind that there can be no return to the old order of things. One of the mistakes of those who oppose a League of Peace is to think that any country in the world can go back to the place that it occupied five years ago. Not only are three great empires smashed, but the fourth--Germany, seems to be in the midst of civil...