Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...this political "smoke and gas." Apparently, it never occurs to the average supporter of Harding or Cox that the league is not the paramount issue of the day. He knows that the possibility of war is what makes a league--some kind of a league--necessary but does the question ever rise in his mind as to what causes war? Does anybody with sense suppose that the phrase "a war to end war" was anything but mob psychology practically applied? Is "democracy" as "safe" in the world today, with nations drunk with militarism and bloated in their national self-aggrandizement...
...forty years, or in four hundred for that matter, will the sites for colleges in the United States all have been occupied, or our financial resources have been exhausted by building colleges, but there is at least excuse for raising the question whether a multiplication of colleges as fast as now seems to be required is entirely wise for asking the other question, whether the real productiveness of the present colleges could not be increased otherwise than by adding to the number of their "halls" and enlarging their Faculties. It might be done by raising the standards of admission...
...that minority which holds the foreign relations of America above mere material prosperity, which cherishes international good will beyond the gratification of national prejudice, the selection of a chief executive is not easy. The essential differences between the rival nominees are few. The question resolves itself into one of parties and principles...
...issue is clear, the divergence of policy unmistakable. Where does the CRIMSON stand? Sir, this is the most momentous question of foreign policy that our country has faced in a century. It is a question that cannot be ignored; it reappears in varying form in all of our domestic problems, and overshadows them all. It must be settled one way or the other. As Solon required all Athenians to take sides on public questions, so now, when the issue has been squarely, joined, it is the duty of all organs of opinion to meet the issue squarely. In respect...
...question accordingly is not between a league and no league, (they contend) but is whether certain provisions in the proposed league agreement shall be accepted unchanged or shall be changed...