The World's Work, Volume 35Walter Hines Page, Arthur Wilson Page Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918 - American literature A history of our time. |
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... turn from the Civil War , and in fifty years of continuous service has probably one more to place that business on a scientific and profitable basis than any other individual . The success of his career illustrates Mr. Theo- dore N ...
... turn from the Civil War , and in fifty years of continuous service has probably one more to place that business on a scientific and profitable basis than any other individual . The success of his career illustrates Mr. Theo- dore N ...
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... turning them out on an enor- mous scale . Though there is every indication that we shall rise to the occasion in the pro- duction of aircraft and merchant vessels , the outlook is unfortunately not so favorable that we shall do our duty ...
... turning them out on an enor- mous scale . Though there is every indication that we shall rise to the occasion in the pro- duction of aircraft and merchant vessels , the outlook is unfortunately not so favorable that we shall do our duty ...
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... turns that the expert helmsman can almost invariably evade the torpedo , especially as this always leaves a tell - tale wake upon the surface . In its combats with the destroyer , therefore , the submarine can rely only upon its guns ...
... turns that the expert helmsman can almost invariably evade the torpedo , especially as this always leaves a tell - tale wake upon the surface . In its combats with the destroyer , therefore , the submarine can rely only upon its guns ...
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... turning out des- troyers on a liberal scale since 1914 , but not in sufficient quantity to patrol all the seas which are penetrated by German submarines . Yet the problem , as the accompanying maps show , is not an insuperable one ...
... turning out des- troyers on a liberal scale since 1914 , but not in sufficient quantity to patrol all the seas which are penetrated by German submarines . Yet the problem , as the accompanying maps show , is not an insuperable one ...
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... turning the scale ? We are standardizing airplanes ; why not standard- ize destroyers and turn them out in any quan- tity desired ? We can do it if we only try . Meantime months are passing , and at least two great merchant ships are ...
... turning the scale ? We are standardizing airplanes ; why not standard- ize destroyers and turn them out in any quan- tity desired ? We can do it if we only try . Meantime months are passing , and at least two great merchant ships are ...
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Page 54 - One nation, most of all, could disturb us in this pursuit; she now offers to lead, aid and accompany us in it. By acceding to her proposition, we detach her from the band of despots, bring her mighty weight into the scale of free government, and emancipate a continent at one stroke, which might otherwise linger long in doubt and difficulty.
Page 53 - The question presented by the letters you have sent me, is the most momentous which has ever been offered to my contemplation since that of Independence. That made us a nation, this sets our compass and points the course which we are to steer through the ocean of time opening on us.
Page 40 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe, our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs. America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe and peculiarly her own. She should therefore have a system of her own separate and apart from that of Europe. While the last is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should surely be to make our hemisphere that of freedom.
Page 519 - Third, every territorial settlement involved in this war must be made in the interest and for the benefit of the populations concerned, and not as a part of any mere adjustment or compromise of claims amongst rival states...
Page 48 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.
Page 519 - Fourth, that all well-defined national aspirations shall be accorded the utmost satisfaction that can be accorded them without introducing new or perpetuating old elements of discord and antagonism that would be likely in time to break the peace of Europe and consequently of the world.
Page 381 - No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.
Page 340 - Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by International action for the enforcement of international covenants.
Page 385 - Travelers intending to embark on the Atlantic voyage are reminded that a state of war exists between Germany and her allies and Great Britain and her allies; that the zone of war includes the waters adjacent to the British Isles ; that, in accordance with formal notice given by the Imperial German Government, vessels flying the flag of Great Britain or...
Page 340 - A free, open-minded and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined.