Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...think all college men, mindful of the leadership and responsibility the United States ought to assume in raising the world from demoralization, should be for the League of Nations." This is the statement which Ex-President William Howard Taft made to a CRIMSON reporter when asked to express his personal opinion on the attitude with which college men should view the League...
...Roosevelt, naturally a favorite with Harvard men, led the field, with Wilson and Hughes following in that order. In the preceding election, 1912, Wilson was first, Roosevelt second and Taft third. These figures clearly show that whether or not college opinion has any weight, it does express the feelings of a majority...
While locality after locality continues to express itself in positive terms as favoring beer and light wines, a number of interesting legal questions arise. Is the Volstead Act constitutional in view of what the constitution says? Is it in view of what the Eighteenth Amendment says? Are the states' laws on the subject constitutional with respect to either or both? If not, which? Does "concurrent jurisdiction" mean literally "running together"--like the blending of gin and vermouth? Or does it mean acting together, but one sovereign, like whiskey and soda? As far as we are able to see, "Nobody knows...
...That which was enabled to bring back with me from a few months of war's reality was founded on my vivid associations at your Fifth Army school during that army's Paschendaele attack in October, 1917. All this we must learn over here, and so I would express to you that the strength of your conviction is going far, very far. WILLIAM O. P. MORGAN...
...quite sure what remedies Macbeth or Hamlet would suggest for our present maladies. With all their excellent qualities, neither of those gentlemen would be suited to express an intelligent opinion on Prohibition, or the Overalls Movement, or Sinn Fein. If such afflictions as these had been added to their lot, we are confident that neither of them would have succeeded in surviving beyond Act Three...