Word: sentimentality
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...fact that at the moment he is engaged in defending the departments of Military and Naval Science. At any rate, it should be perfectly evident that his views regarding Widener are not generally shared by the undergraduate body. There is a very strong and a very justifiable body of sentiment which differs from Mr. Tillinghast, which feels that the closing of Widener is a handicap, especially in a busy period, to a proper course of preparation, and that such a handicap is not justified by the economies involved...
...indicating a growth of pro-Soviet sentiment, it has no such significance. It merely shows that we are getting away from provincialism and prejudices. As a nation, we deal with any country irrespective of its form of government. We shall continue in our own way, and Russia will continue in here...
More than two years ago a thin, fine rain of inflation sentiment began to fall on the Slough of Depression. Nine months ago men realized there was a rising flood. By October when the last of the old gold standard was submerged many a man saw in his mind's eye the members of Congress assembling in an inundated Capitol wading through the green waters of the flood, legislating in a sea of deep greenbackery. Last week the prophets of catastrophe saw that they were at least in part mistaken. The flood looked silvery, not green and the direction...
...policy has been most conciliatory to the capitalist powers of the West. It is hardly likely that this extreme friendliness has been due merely to a desire to get commercial oredits, for while this has played some part, the real motivating factor has been the desire to create favorable sentiment in the West. That this policy has been so vigorously pursued would certainly seem to show that the Russians regard the coming conflict with Japan as more or less inevitable; particularly when one considers the warlike official statements that have been emanating from the Kremlin lately and the large concentration...
...interesting to note in this connection how this show of popular sentiment has quelled the roar of Congressional dissent which greeted the budget message when it first appeared. With the political foresight of glowworms, the Republicans were prepared to leap gleefully on Mr. Roosevelt and see him overwhelmed by public disapproval of his monstrous expenditures, whil they posed grandiloquently as the saviors of their country or at least of their country's credit. Mr. Snell announced that he was so shocked that he did not expect to recover for "several days." The several days have passed and Mr. Snell...