Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...crisis in Lloyd George's government is one whose seriousness can not be overemphasized. An open break has occurred between military and political leaders, which threatens to result in a wholesale resignation of English generals and a possible overthrow of the ministry. On the one hand it is maintained that the dismissal of General Robertson illustrates the shortcomings of political interference. An efficient general staff is impossible where the carping politician is free to do as he will. On the other, the supporters of Lloyd George demand that he hold tight reins on the English war policy. Labor, pacifist...
...release of large numbers of Germans from the Russian front will almost inevitably result in an early spring offensive. A complete co-ordination of our armies is the absolute essential of meeting it successfully. The English break is therefore particularly unfortunate at the present time. Its moral effect can not be measured. It will afford food for dissension. It will discourage faith in our ultimate ability to win the war. In all respects it is an example of what must be avoided...
...Register in a normal year. That little red volume has always represented the sweat of a great many editorial brows. And so at the beginning of this college year it seemed impossible to get out this book in any sort of shape. The Board, however, was very reluctant to break the continuity of such a time-honored series, and it was decided to make the best of trials. The 1917-18 Register comes out today, which is a little late as Registers go, but a hasty perusal of it will soften any wrath because of its tardiness...
...weather. With the return of more normal conditions the practicability of holding the Junior Dance will be assured. It was, therefore, a wise step on the part of the committee to postpone rather than cancel the arrangements they had planned, for the value of one such social function to break through the monotony of the College year is not to be denied...
...classes, but to take in a brand new freshman class in February made up of "picked men, gluttons for punishment," as one of the officials puts it, who, by October, will have completed their regular freshman work and will then go on as sophomores, four full terms without a break...