Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...what is applicable now will have to be modified by the next generation; that "good" and "bad" are relative terms, especially in politics. No arbitrary rules likely to become entangling precedents for futu4re statesmen are included in the pact. It remains for the people to interpret to modify or expand, and it is over duty as college students to prepare ourselves for the choice we must inevitable make. Whether we believe in President Wilson's ideals, or whether we think him and impractical dreamer, it should to our work first to study the facts, and then top speak...
There is another aspect which is closely connected with Germany's imperial policy and which perhaps furnishes an answer to such an unprecedented demand. It is Germany's aim to expand. Dutch occupation of the rich territory at the mouth of the Rhine has long been a bitter obstacle to German expansion and trade. A triumphant Germany seems, therefore, to turn upon another victim. The gain of transporting war supplies through Holland is practically negligible. In demanding what she has, Germany has merely forced Dutch neutrality to a point where it must...
These actions are antagonizing the last friends the Huns have left in Europe. They would be puzzling in any other nation, but Germany considers itself so strong owing to the collapse of Russia that it can expand in the north as well as in the east and can afford to flout the Scandinavian nations...
...American people must remember that we are living and working in a democracy; that democracy and professionalism are repugnant, and always will be. A true democracy must find room for the amateur to expand. A nation must either be democratic or it must be autocratic, having efficiency in professionalism. In democracies each man must have an opportunity in public affairs, and efficiency and professionalism must be restricted to private life...
...harbor us successfully last year, but now that the Radio School lives there we cannot use it; even if it were available, it would be inadequate, for by December we will be too advanced to spend the winter in the gentle art of right facing. Like Germany, we must expand and like her we have no place to go. Somebody will have to think and do it thoroughly to solve the problem. Unless we find an armory in town or build one here the winter drill is sure to be a dismal failure and a glaring waste of time...