Word: civility
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...largely as the result of bad roads. He wins a scholarship by writing an essay on the subject of good roads. Naturally, he comes to Washington to have the President present him with the scholarship. The natural consequence is. the bright young lad returns to his home with a civil engineer's degree and devotes his life to making the country a finer and safer place to ride...
...answer to the public is that journalism has never been more free from falsehood and inaccuracy than at present. His answer to those who lament "the great editors are gone " is that we are well rid of them-they bred partisanship, they even " precipitated the Civil...
These opinions are fairly representative of the attitude of most railway executives. In their robustness the opinions are especially Kruttsehnittian. For Kruttschnitt is a man of the self-made type. He was the son of a New Orleans merchant ruined by the Civil War. Nevertheless he had a college education, at Washington and Lee University. His first railroad job was as an engineer building part of the line which is now the eastern end of the Southern Pacific. Today he is Chairman of the Road with a salary of $100,000 a year, ranking with Alfred H. Smith...
...Chapelle, from which they had been driven a fortnight ago. After doing considerable damage to art treasures in the town they were suddenly confronted with a volte face from the Belgian authorities, who, having formerly supported them, ordered them out of the town to the intense relief of the civil population. Herr Doktor Matthes, leader of the Separatists, declared that he would come back to Aix with his troops, "Belgium or no Belgium...
...Delay means the possible overthrow of Governments, dissolution, chaos, civil war and hell let loose in Europe...