Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Even here in patriotic Philadelphia you will see them sometimes salute shamefacedly and furtively, as if they were trying to avoid the soldier who has just saluted them...
...Must Avoid Credit Extension...
...desire the improvement and advancement of our nation, "the progress of the group as a group," not imposing itself or its ideas on any smaller or weaker nations, the duty of unselfish service is incumbent upon us; we cannot avoid it, try how we will. Dematerializing men and men's motives seems to me the only way of insuring for America the efficient and progressive democracy which she neds so badly. I fail to see how our present system of education or that proposed by Mr. Lazarus are going to accomplish this. C. S. JOSLYN...
...present instance, firstly and least importantly, I have been put in a false light. Not the "Harvard Illustrated," but several daily newspapers have printed such a jumble of statement and misstatement that their readers will hardly avoid the conclusion that I, when about to withdraw from Harvard, have proceeded to "foul the nest". Such an Insinuation is not less than monstrous. I am about to leave Harvard entirely of my own motion, against the most cordial and friendly remonstrances of President Lowell and of my colleagues, and for reason many of which have no remotest connection with this or with...
...future is inevitable. But although Liberty Bonds are a convenient method of financing the war, they fortunately go far from accomplishing that ignoble "shifting of the burden," for the real burdens are being borne now. Buy Liberty Bonds because of those things for which they stand, but avoid the illusion of a theory which is as untrue as it is lacking in the very elements of honor...