Word: deal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Whitney was for forty years a Professor of Sanskrit at Yale, during which time he did a great deal to further the prestige of that university. He was the author of a great many books on philology, besides works in his particular field of Sanskrit, he composed French and German grammars and translated several foreign books, among them being Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell." He had the general supervision of the publication of the "Century International Dictionary" and was the author of numerous writings on word derivations...
...secret that "average" is the last term to apply to our First Division, in which Roosevelt fought. There were other good divisions, the 2nd and 3rd and 32nd and 42nd, and others, too; there were also a few pretty poor ones, whose achievements under demobilized conditions are a good deal more conspicuous than they were at the front. But the army knows well enough that the First was our model division. Together with the Second, it did more hard fighting than any other; it produced more good commanding and staff officers, notably General Summerall; it kept going, whether under fire...
...Colonel Roosevelt "average"? Not a bit. He is a real chip of the old block, combative, honest, direct--not to say blunt--like his father before him. His war record was first rate; his book is a good deal better than might be expected from an author of little literary experience. There is lots of the Roosevelt personality in the book, and lots of the First Division spirit. For some, and let us hope many readers, that should be sufficient recommendation...
People who want to deal with Russia and Bolshevism by the taboo method imply one or the other of two things: either their secret fear that the Russians are working out a superior system, or their conviction that the American people can't be trusted to tell right from wrong. The first of these ideas belittles democracy; the second denies it. HAZELTON SPENCEE...
...year will take place in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow afternoon from 4 to 6.30 o'clock. Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell and Mrs. Matthew Luce will act as patronesses. Music will be furnished by the University Band of 30 pieces, which has already met with a great deal of success in playing for dances at Brockton and elsewhere...