Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...would-be engineer often bring a painful disillusionment. On the other hand, a young man of intelligence, personal force and executive ability, with a good supply of honest ambition, often excludes from consideration such profes- sions as the ministry or education, on the ground that his qualities would be thrown away in these professions, or because he thinks the minister or the teacher is presumably a man whose career is never voluntarily chosen but is marked out for him by the possession of certain so-called gifts, which no able-bodied, vigorous and ambitious man would envy...
...special deposit of money sufficient to cover any liability for rent. Each student must sign his own name to his application. Any lack of observance of these requirements on the part of any one student singing an application blank affects all the applicants and the entire application will be thrown...
...special deposit of money sufficient to cover any liability for rent. Each student must sign his own name to his application. Any lack of observance of these requirements on the part of any one student signing an application blank effect all the applicants and the entire application will be thrown...
...only been thrown at our naval officers; it has even reached our greatest presidents. Lincoln, bearing the troubles of a great war upon his shoulders, was mercilessly reviled; Grant was attacked; McKinley, at the crisis of the Spanish War, was fiercely slandered by the papers. Today Theodore Roosevelt, fearless and straightforward, is being criticised on all sides...
...Smith then declared that his purpose was to teach the men in the University to reverence their brother Americans, because they are true men. We admire courage, and yet accord it but small protection against the "mud" thrown by the unscrupulous newspapers. It is our duty to praise the good and to take little notice of the bad; and it will eventually disappear. Then we can obey the commandment "Love thy brother as thyself" or, in the words of Theodore Roosevelt, "Give every man a square deal...