Word: checking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...printing a communication on the Humphries meeting by the undersigned in last Saturday's CRIMSON an error was made which seriously misrepresents our position. In the sentence "Some of us do fear lest the suppression in America of free speech and check of the 'evolutionary' growth of industrial democracy, if continued, may lead to the same pitiful misery, violence and destruction as has accompanied the Russian Revolution," you printed the word "revolutionary" in place of our word "evolutionary...
...long terrorism of the Czar to those who condemn it. None of us maintain that the program and methods of Lenine and Trotzky are "Applicable to the traditions, institutions and aims of this country." Some of us do fear lest the suppression in America of free speech and check of the revolutionary growth of industrial democracy, if continued, may lead to the same pitiful misery, violence and destruction as has accompanied the Russian Revolution...
...beset China are not all due to foreign aggression; that which is probably the most serious is accounted for by the corruption of the Chinese officials themselves. Embezzlement and the misuse of public funds to the advantage of private affairs is a common practice, exercised with little or no check, while not infrequently officials have shamelessly accepted bribes in return for which they have sold the interests of their country. But', they continued, 'our troubles on this account, scandalous as they are, are greatly magnified when the money power of a foreign government or of some individual outsider is sent...
...Advisers were unable to do so, a revised list has been prepared in which certain necessary corrections and additions have been made, Seniors are asked to read this list carefully and observe changes. In cases where advisers are uncertain as to what Freshmen are on their lists, they can check their lists by consulting Miss Wallingford in University...
...Will not our soldiers have died in vain clipping the claws of the German beast if the claws of the beasts sullenly stirring in England, Japan, Italy and innumerable lesser countries are permitted to grow unchecked? And the check is the League of Nations...