Word: shallower
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...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...
There have been coming reports, no doubt largely exaggerated for dramatic effect, of Americans leaving this country for Mexico, for Canada or Cuba, to avoid the military duty which rests on each citizen as the price of his citizenship. One might be easily tempted, with shallow wisdom, to demand that laws be enacted to prevent these men from seeking in flight the presumably safe but blastingly dishonorable course of the coward...
...since Russia, living for the present will in all likelihood give up the war in which she has embarked, because of a false democratic understanding with Germany, and a shallow sentimentality for imperial-made socialism, America will be driven to fight thrice as hard. Much treasure will be consumed, irrevocable months will be lost, and many thousands of our brave countrymen meet death that Russia may be freed from the threat of that which may overturn her new found liberty...