Word: alterity
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...sentimental attachment of the American people for the Constitution is hard enough to explain here, but in the eyes of foreign nations it is simply unfathomable. No matter how much it is cursed as an obstacle in the way of modern and efficient government, any movement to alter it is met with the hottest of resentment. When it comes to a definite showdown, Americans decide with their peculiar toryism that whatever is to be done must keep within the limits of the Constitution. If this is found to be impossible, the legislation is hurried out of sight around the corner...
...other words," said he, "a competent plastic surgeon, if given time, can alter every mark by which human beings are ordinarily identified. The advantage which the police still have in dealing with criminals is that the criminal is always in a hurry. And this work, to be well done, takes time...
...diplomatist at a moment like that one." Page soft-pedalled Wilson's sharpest notes to the British Government, drew frequent Wilsonian rebukes: "Beg that you will not regard the position of this Government as merely academic. Contact with opinion on this side the water would materially alter your view. . . ." But long before the U. S. joined the Allies, Page had become, in Wilson's eyes, "just another Englishman...
...cheapest. No other means has been devised of presenting to a large student body a condensed mass of material, accompanied by interpretive analysis on the part of a recognized authority. Textbooks--or the majority of them--soon become antiquated, whereas from the platform, an instructor is able to alter his subject in accordance as new facts are unearthed. Unhappily, the difficulty of mastering the lecture system, with its many angles, is out of all proportion to its economy...
Resolution No, 5: Alter the directorate to include three directors, one each from cities up to 15,000, 50,000, 75,000 population. Publisher Robert McLean of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin: "Better discussed by a quiet, thoughtful group of men. Let it be put up to the board of directors." Vote: Referred to the directors. Lawyer Neylan: "Will the directors handle the voting as was done today?" Noyes, snappishly: "Maybe. Can't tell." Neylan: "Twice this afternoon you have disfranchised 900 members of the Associated Press by not permitting their proxies to be voted." Neylan, later: "We always lose...