Word: swallowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been conducting the war for wildly imperialistic aims is usually backed up by referring to the demands made by the Polish government from time to time for a frontier in the east far beyond the ethnographic boundaries of Poland. It is often said that the Poles are trying to swallow up millions of White Russians, Lithuanians, and other alien elements...
...uncertain terms you denounced an attack made upon your College on Sunday night, September 26. The attack was hard to swallow, and aroused your wrath. Let us suppose for the sake of argument that the attack was true--that one of the most famous institutions for higher learning in America, the land of the free, does in spirit espouse the cause of the same military tyranny from which we so proudly rescued ourselves 150 years ago. If that is true, would not silence have been your safest weapon in concealing Harvard's shame...
...Swallow, tell...
There is no doubt but that partisan politics serve a very definite end in government, but a sharp party division has its drawbacks as well. We let the party leader do the thinking. We swallow campaign literature instead of digesting current thought. A college education, if it accomplishes anything, should teach us to formulate our judgments independently. The path of least resistance is to have our politics bequeathed to us, but the educated man thinks for himself...
...right to assume that the only alternatives are radicalism and ultra conservatism, and that those who refuse to swallow either of these dogmas are in immediate danger of "falling off backwards" from the fence upon which our friend has conveniently placed them. We are confident that the liberals will share in the "wedding feast" to as great an extent as the "oil-bearing" conservatives. Today, true Americanism consists not in ridicule and vituperation, but in sincere striving for the co-operation of the elements that constitute American society. IRVING ROSENBLOOM '23. HENRY J. FRIENDLY...