Word: rather
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...system of government for the adjustment of human relations and conflicting interests by law rather than by force requires some devices to perform legislative, executive and judicial functions. Rules must be laid down and interpreted, administrative duties must be discharged, effective limitations and requirements must be placed upon individuals to secure co-ordination, and all questions in dispute must be authoritatively decided...
Public announcement of the intentions of the president elect respecting Mexico would be improper and probably premature. But from what may be known it safely may be inferred they are practical and constructive. Peace in Mexico as elsewhere must rest upon an economic basis rather than a political or sentimental one, and it seems likely that the new Mexican regime realizes this as well as the necessity for negotiating help from the United States. If this be true we see no reason why we should not be able to assist Mexico to escape from the revolutionary morass and go forward...
That the Obregon government is informally sounding the Republican leaders rather than the outgoing government is only common sense in the circumstances. But the situation is embarrassing and illustrates again the need for a constitutional amendment which shall shorten the period between election and inauguration. In 1860 that weakness nearly destroyed the union, for it permitted traitors in the government to use the government's resources to build up the strength of the secessionists. In 1916, if Mr. Hughes had won, we should have had a very serious situation, with our policy as to Germany suspended for four months...
...right mood, finds his vision obscured at times by tears of laughter. Uncontrollable chuckling seizes him at Mr. Brown's ludicrously chivalrous attitude to his fair companion on the desert isle and their common adventures it is only a pity that the ending is rather weak...
...insurance agent during the war and had been forced to try to earn a living with my hands, all his suspicions would disappear and he would immediately tell me a hard luck story either about himself or a friend, and would accept me as an equal. At times it rather humiliated me to find that I was so thoroughly and quickly classed as an ordinary 'low brow...