Word: shallow
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...follow foreign affairs supported President Wilson. Lack of access to the sea is one of the greatest incentives for a nation to wage war; it dominated Russian policy for a century and a half. Flume is the chief and almost the only port in the long expanse of shallow beaches between Trieste and Montenegro. The question is not one of Flume, but of the hinterland of Flume. Is the port more important to the hinterland or to Italy, whose object, says Premier Nitti, "has after all merely sentimental value"? Will not the good will of the Jugoslavs be of more...
...what is more shallow-brained than for one conversant with the needs of returned soldier, and realizing the extremely trying conditions under which the service man is re-establishing himself, to advocate our breaking faith with our fighting...
...glorious thing to know that through the awful destruction and havoc which this war is effecting we are at least coming to know, to understand, and to appreciate our brothers of the South and that they are seeing us in another light than that of rank materialists. No shallow sentiment or diplomatic sophistry prompted this letter from the law students of Buenos Aires. It was the expression of opinion of a class of men who think and whose thought is all the more to be trusted because of their study. Such a sincere statement will be of great help...
...from great military leaders will he come, nor from great statesmen. Not from our leaders of affairs and our established politicians. He will be a dreamer who knows the highways to the fulfillment of dreams; and a wise man whose wisdom is beyond the shallow chatter of banks...
...simplest, the most proper, and the only return which may be made is to justify the implied confidence of our national leaders of war by service. That permits of no shallow conception of the purpose of the Corps, and no evasion of duty...