Word: jarring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...idle theorists can hope for such a graceful subject of theorizing as Mr. Gleason has proven in last Friday's CRIMSON, Answering Mr. Fleming's article on labels, he appropriately steps forward, crowns his opponent with a sort of gigantic preserve-jar label "radical," and thereby pickles him for life, shelving him where no unwitting undergraduate lover of the constitution can be in danger of his phizzing over again...
Does the cautious Vermont farmer prefer the safety of hoarding his wealth in a sugar jar to the danger involved from investing it in his own nation? Does the canny Maine woodsmen see in the national loan the wild perils of high finance, from which, fate being merciful, he prefers to keep his money? Where is all of New England's strength, promised so often to the last drop of her blood and the last ounce of her treasure? The first drop of her blood has not been asked, nor the hundredth part of her treasure...