Word: away
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...arise within some of our allied countries that the United States should make up their sacrifice because her sacrifice was not fully accepted seems unworthy of their recent noble action. A debt is a debt and no amount of difference between the debtor and his creditor can wipe away the obligation until the debt is paid. Now for certain Europeans to infer that the Allies' years of fighting before the United States entered the war should be ample pay for the loans which we made them, not only is an alteration of the obligation of contract but shows a disappointing...
...reach a real solution one must be able to examine it from both sides. Thus we find the true philosopher, the true scholar is very careful in making unqualified statements; he is a liberal in the real sense of the word, and after hearing him we always go away with a feeling of comfort...
...Class Day and commencement week, as well as the meeting places of the alumni associations of the University have been announce. One change in the usual program is that the meeting of the Alumni Association will be held in the Drill Shed off Oxford St., which is farther away from the yard than the usual, place of assembly. For this reason, the precession will form in front of Massachusetts Hall at 1 o'clock, a half-hour earlier than formerly...
...British. A man who, unlike our more cautious United States Navy filers, "took all the chances" in a daredevil attempt to do what many air-men considered next to impossible, impressed American and British sportsmanship to the same high degree. From the moment of Hawker's sensational get-away, when he dropped with his landing-gear practically all his chances of alighting safely on land, Americans were "rooting" for him, rather than the more cautiously scientific American pilots. Then he was lost for a week, and General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout Movement, was deeply affected...
...which leads to literature, because the author has sympathized with his hero. I am arraid that in the craze for technique the necessity of sympathetic understanding is too often forgotten; the story goes with a click, like a child's toy, but soon wears out and is throw away...