Word: adopt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1920
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...foemen worthy of her best endeavor and that a resulting victory will be of more than ordinary interest. It is also fortunate that the subject for debate is perhaps next to the League of Nations the most interesting topic before the American people. Whether the United States is to adopt a policy of limiting propaganda against the Government before any overt act takes place, is a question which invites the attention of all students of democratic institutions and upon which opinions widely differ...
...come to realize that whatever affects the world peace affects us. May we never have to learn this again by being dragged into a world-war! But find it out, we will. Then, in spite of our Lodges and Borahs and the drivel of "button-hole patriots," we shall adopt a position of which our national dignity need no longer be ashamed...
...League of Nations with the reservations known as the Senate reservations. In dealing with this, we must not look at America from the European standpoint. We should look at European affairs from the American standpoint. We have a right to maintain the interests of our own country. We must adopt the League with reservations. We do not want America to be part of any separate state. We do want to help the world with its problems. We have done it in the world war and we shall do it again as long as we have a soul and a conscience...
...military establishment handled in an efficient manner. Personally, I do not think that we need an army of more than 225,000, but it wants to be highly efficient and backed by our reserve corps officers and such a system of training as you may decide to adopt. The present administration has brought up a good measure, the Universal Training, Bill, providing for a period of training of four or six months to be given somewhere between the 19th and 21st years. The boys come to the camp and are thoroughly overhauled, any physical defects are corrected...
...university is the laboratory of truth. It is an experimental station. He who would learn in this laboratory the eternal immutable laws of truth, must adopt as his criterion the scientific perspective of absolute, unbiased, suspended, critical judgment. His mind must not be befogged by the haze of prejudgments. He must be moderate and temperate. He must be tenacious, upholding old truths. He must be a radical as well as a conservative in the true meaning of these words. As a radical he must dig into the roots of the subject. As a conservative he must conserve and preserve...