Word: could
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Republican Senators thought they had the Treaty safely in its grave, they must be exceedingly surprised to find the supposed corpse very much alive and kicking. The gentlemen of the Upper House could not have seriously believed that the country would let them commit their crime without molestation. The fury of indignation that has swept not only America, but the whole world--except Germany, of course--cannot have startled them much; or if it did, it does not speak; well for their intelligence...
During the first half neither side could gain a yard through their opponent's line. The Engineers' only score came in the second quarter when Whitten on a forward pass brought the ball to the 15-yard line. Two line plunges netted three yards, and W. W. Caswell '20 scored a field goal from the 18-yard line...
Although Mr. Cabot has expressed himself previously as opposed to college aviation because of its risks and expense, he explained last night that he believed that these two objections could be obviated. Plans are now under way to make it possible for the Harvard Aeronautical Society to have the use of a plane without great cost; and the adoption of stringent flying rules would do much to lessen the danger...
...soccer team blanked the Milton eleven in a fast game played at Milton yesterday afternoon with a 3-0 score. A vigorous and sustained attack in the first half allowed the yearlings to make their score before the school boys could organize their defense. In the second half the Orange and Blue booters were considerably stronger, and the yearlings were hard pressed to defend their goal...
...being used for the benefit of a small minority--the employers and employees in the particular business in which the improvement is installed. During the reign of free competition in the nineteenth century it was generally assumed that the employer had a right to all the profit he could make. Faced by a mass of competitors he could not boost the price and thereby make the public pay. But with the growth of organized labor came a demand from the workers that all payment should be at a standard rate, and hence that the profit on inventions should be solely...