Word: dieingly
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...time has come, however, to realize that a compromise is imperative it any workable solution is to be attained. The very word, "compromise", has about it a smack of surrender and a suspicion of failure that make it detestable alike to the "bitter-ender" and the "die-hard". The proposer of a compromise usually calls upon himself the wrath of both opposing sides; in the end, however, it is the compromise which triumphs...
Must now the torch die out where last they dropped...
...Holding up the back for the curious one to look at) "It's a collection of biographical sketches of people who have risen to fame only to die as failures--such as the Emperor Maximilian or Beau Brummel or Lady Hamilton...
...point of great importance in constructive social work at the present time is the necessity of a balanced ration. In the old days of long voyages of sailing ships around the Horn and of whalers, men used to die of scurvy,--not because they did not have plenty to eat but because certain necessary kinds of food were lacking. In the same way a man may have plenty to do and yet be starved for some of the necessary ingredients of human life...
...courage, the willingness of the soldiers of the Marne to die for the sake of Liberty, makes an instant response in our hearts because it is the common heritage of France and America. . . . This Marne Memorial will represent our kinship of democracy with France and the bond of sympathy between America and her sister republic."--Dr. John H. Finley...