Word: actionable
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...generally admitted that this country prepared for her part in the war in about as extravagant a manner as possible. Circumstances seemed to justify this action since we had more money than time with which to get our men into the trenches. But we have elevated this excuse for an emergency into a rule of conduct. Our bills were not paid with the signing of the armistice. With a funded debt of twenty-six billion dollars, there is an annual interest charge of over one billion. From the $750,000,000 which flowed into the Treasury last Tuesday from...
...rest of the afternoon was centered upon the time trial of the Yale crews. Entirely unsuspecting the scheduled trials, Coaches William Haines and Paul Withington went out in a pair oar for exercise, and found themselves in a most advantageous position to watch the Yale crews in action at close hand. The Blue oarsmen rowed a long slow stroke at about 30 to the minute, raising it at the end of the stretch to 36. The conditions of the water were excellent, as there was neither wind nor tide to interfere with the course of the row. The time...
...case for the deposed professor, it would seem evident that in this suggestion by the News we have a new principle of pedagogy involved. No one questions the advisability of at least considering the students point of view in conducting courses of instruction, but the idea that the action of a faculty committee in allowing a professor to resign is open to challenge by the student body is a novel one. We look with distrust upon the proposal of the News to establish a "student soviet" court...
Acquiescence and enthusiasm to the contrary, however, the treaty plank is nothing of which to be proud. It mentions definitely the fact that the Republican Convention approves of the action of the Republican Senate--a fact scarcely open to doubt. It goes so far as to agree with the Senate in opposing the League of Nations without proper reservations. That, it will be seen, is a very different thing from favoring a League of Nations with reservations...
...this question, purely a moral one, is slowly developing into a political item, the body of protestors has taken this opportunity to oppose legislative action on this subject...