Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...army. Thus the responsibility rests on the central government, while a great part of the power is in the hands of the Committee. This dualism has paralyzed the central power, and made the situation almost hopeless. However, I believe that Russia's reserve of patriotism will cause a healthy reaction, and although the end may be far off, she will eventually return to a moderate, democratic government...
...great fact of this year is war, and the great fact of the college reaction to war is the adoption of a vigorous course of military training by the Administration. No one wants or should want to make this a gloomy year. It is right that recreation and the normal social life of the college should continue without being termed frivolities. But if the college life of this year is not to fail sadly to adjust itself to new conditions, one new ingredient must be decidedly introduced into college life, and that is attention to military work and drill. --Brown...
...reason in existence. As the Reformation was the age of religious idol-shattering and the age of Revolution the age of political idol-shattering, so this, the unnamed but magnificent epoch, is the age of social idol-shattering. So, utterly will they be shattered that not all reaction many restore them; no more than it may restore the very dead...
...will convince anyone of the truth of this statement. We went as far as to give more importance to English than to our own language, Spanish, in our schools. The Republican Party, with its belief in statehood for the island, controlled the country until 1904. However, a sharp reaction set in to counteract the political abuses of the appointees, and as an expression of national consciousness, the Unionist Party came into control as a result...
...those external appearances are apt to mislead the calmest judgment, and give false value to the characters of some men who seem greater than they are. Yet such superficial judgment is far less common here than it is under a more sophisticated mode of life. It is the reaction from the barbaric simplicity of the judgments of youth which is apt to cause men to consider that the standards of judgment here are aristocratic. There is a clean and healthy tendency to regard men for their accomplishments, and the opportunity for accomplishment is open to every man. Can one find...