Word: away
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...weather lays his cloak away...
...very start the 1921 oarsmen got away to a slight lead, but were passed in the next few strokes by the Junior shell. The latter crew, maintaining a high stroke, gained steadily on the Sophomores throughout the first mile, while the Senior eight, after a short brush with 1921, dropped well to the rear. As the boats neared Harvard Bridge the leaders were a length to the good. Both coxswains called for a spurt, and the Juniors added a half length to their advantage before running into the rough water of the Basin. From that moment until the final sprint...
...utmost consequence to every nation, large and small, Germany has been so bereft of all military and naval power that, if the provisions of the Treaty are carried out--and the guarantees that they will be are adequate--the scourge of militarism can no longer hold away over the civilized world. With all the other great powers united in a League of Nations and Germany in a state of complete impotence, there is great cause to hope that armaments may be persistently reduced. With greater belief in a safe future, we may turn ourselves towards the problems of peace...
...wines, beer, and ale, "intoxicating"? Almost anyone would answer in the negative. Certainly it would take gallons of 3 per cent, beer to have the slightest deleterious effect. As for light wines, even were they intoxicating, their high price would continue seriously to limit their use, and to do away with their abuse altogether. We feel confident that if the Supreme Court of the United States interpreted the 18th Amendment as applying only to spirituous liquors, which alone are intoxicating, and not to light wines and beer, they would be carrying out the will of a majority of the people...
Between the ages of seventeen and twenty-five, men have a more progressive and idealistic attitude than at any other period of life. Nothing seems too big or too difficult to accomplish; there is a breaking away from the traditional ways of thinking; a consciousness of one's own power...