Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...priceless advantages of a large university that, by reason of its size, it affords its students a greater chance to choose their friends with good taste and discretion. And it is every man's privilege, if not the secret of his happiness, that he may restrict the circle of his intimates to those whose tastes square with his own and to whom he can look for all around betterment. But if we are to think of him as one who never inflicts pain, the gentleman cannot retain his integrity and let pass unnoticed the acquaintance whose hand he has over...
...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 to all the nagging disputes, the friction and diplomatic entanglements which never fail to arise between...