Word: channels
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...When an English merchant sends his goods forty miles across the channel into France, that is considered foreign trade. But when a New England manufacturer sends his products three thousand miles across the continent to California, it is merely interstate commerce. It is easy to see, therefore, that the volume of American commerce has been great, although it has not been specifically designated as foreign trade...
...frivolous, plotless play has been largely brought on by the war, under the excuse of giving people something they can follow without thought or effort; but in such light productions, the mind is much more liable to stray back to its original trouble instead of being directed in another channel. A play of depth, tangibly constructed, is of far more value to the tired mind than such nonsensical entertainment. Even though it is hardly apparent on the surface, the Workshop play is seriously threatening the foundations of those 'unworthy' plays, slowly undermining them, and, I hope, to their speedy collapse...
...establish an elaborate system of scholarships for this purpose. That which is most needed in distant states is a close relation between the Harvard Clubs and the High Schools of their cities. There is plenty of material. It is just a matter of directing it into the proper channel...
...secret of true greatness, as it is revealed to us in the lives of great men is comprehended in the sum of the two terms vision plus valor. It is the vision which is not so myopic as to be confined to one narrow channel of existence, but which has the power to view life as a whole and to interpret aright the rights and duties of human beings one toward another; it is the vision which is not so steeped in the lore of the past that it is blinded to the great movements and tendencies which...
Last Saturday we heard of the Germans on Kemmel Hill, of Ypres almost certainly lost, and the enemy storm heavy over the Channel ports. Today we read of a British Cabinet Minister warning his countrymen against a coming peace offensive. And yet the week that is gone has witnessed no Waterloo, no battle of the Marne, though it may be that Von Arnim's defeat between Ypres and Locre may be discovered some day to have borne a much greater significance than the very considerable importance we attach to it now. What we are witnessing today in the spirit...