Word: seeking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Seek not to turn all vintages to blood...
...superficial expedient will remedy this condition. We are only too prone to seek the immediate, only too averse to tracing the certain future results of our present acts. If we do not seek the permanent now, it will be at the cost of our future satisfaction. As Mr. Phillips says, "Reform must come from within, not from without, and it will be brought about by a sterner sense of duty and a realization that the vain stampede after pleasure for pleasure's sake is leading us only to restlessness and discontent...
...people of Nidden are stricken with the plague. Only seven wives remain. These seek a welcome death on the dune. --Boston Traveler...
...variety, all the colors were dull, all the landscape equally mournful. Now this is actually to condemn not merely individual consistency of mood but the consistency in spirit of an entire nation throughout the ages. Did she expect Spain to cast off her mourning and giggle? Did she seek for a soda fountain in Segovia? Did she want the devil on the church steeple? If she did I call her a fool, if she did not I place her in the ranks of those who fail to recognize, calling it theatrical, that most holy thing, austerity...
...tariff, the merchant marine and civil service reform, however long and heatedly they may be discussed are not the dominant issues of this campaign. The pivot on which the election really turns is the maintenance of the national spirit, of that love of liberty which does not seek to become license that has made America great in times past...