Word: getting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...should tell it that I was at Harvard once when Mr. Haughtonstein was running the footballers. I think Mr. Haughtonstein is a good football coachman but he is no good for photographers. When I was up by the soldiers' field to get some action picture he had a lot of low life freshmen throw me out of the place. But the laugh is on him because I have been thrown out of a lot of better colleges since...
Professor Albert Edward Janssen, of the University of Louvain and a member of the Belgian Mission, yesterday made a tour of inspection over the University. The visiting commissioner was particularly anxious to get acquainted with the methods of instruction in the Department of Economics...
...aviators in peace time we must develop our commercial aviation. More extensive aerial mail routes and privately owned fast freight lines operated under government subsidy offer great possibilities. This is being done on a large scale on the Continent and there is no reason why we should let them get ahead of us. If we are to have control of the air we must have machines built in this country, and machines will not be manufactured unless there is a demand for them in commercial fields...
...tumult and the shouting of the war have died away. Tales of stark daring fall on ears that have heard hundreds of such tales before. The seamen of the "Suicide Squadron" will not get, and doubtless do not expect, the welcome that greeted those who returned earlier. Yet the world will be eternally, though silently, grateful to those men who, forsaking the paths of safety and even the comparative ease of showing bravery in the heat of battle, have quietly gone about their hazardous task. Theirs, unassuming and unadvertised, is the highest glory...
This sane and proper view is now confirmed by countries in Europe. Constructionists in general defeated obstructionists and destructionists. The present time is not one for wild and hare-brained schemes of social milleniums. The job of the world is to get back on its feet after being bled white by a war costing millions of lives and hundred of billions of dollars. In the words of Premier Clemenceau, "the salvation of the world lies in work and work alone." The destructionist and obstructionist Red can cool his head and his head in the outer office for a while...