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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will cost America far more to neglect Turkey than to take the chance that is now offered to clean up the worst of the world's trouble breeders. We would need but few troops to quiet any disorder that might arise and the expense involved in the undertaking would be well repaid by the restoration of order, and by the profits that would accrue to American industry through the development of Turkey's resources...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOSTON MAN BACK FROM CONSTANTINOPLE SAYS "TERRIBLE TURK" NOT REALLY BLOOD THIRSTY | 12/19/1919 | See Source »

Something over a year ago the people of this country were looking toward peace as to the Millenium. The end of hostilities was to be the panacea for all wrong; the nation was to settle down, and with a clean slate start anew. The war had taught us lessons in patriotism, co-operation and economy. One of its dearly-bought advantages was to be a national house-cleaning. The old order was dead, and we were going through fire that a newer and cleaner order might arise from its ashes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR DALLYING CONGRESS. | 12/11/1919 | See Source »

...their way from the West, where vigorous American manhood, with its face to the setting sun, hewed out an empire and established the fighting spirit of truth throughout a great land. They come to me from the South and the North, from every farm and village and city, where clean hearted, clear eyed boys have turned toward me as the mother of colleges, the great teacher of opportunities grasped and dreams come true...

Author: By Guy EMERSON ., | Title: HARVARD'S CREED | 11/25/1919 | See Source »

...Princeton, by a touchdown and field goal in the game two weeks ago, has been the only team to score of the Crimson. With the downfall of Colgate and Dartmouth last Saturday, Harvard became the only eastern eleven of importance to approach the completion of its season with a clean record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDEFEATED ELEVEN WILL REPRESENT HARVARD IN CONTEST WITH YALE IN STADIUM THIS AFTERNOON | 11/22/1919 | See Source »

Eliot Crews won all but one of their races in yesterday's continuation of the regatta. Thayer 2 won from Eliot 2, but with that exception the Eliot Club eight made a clean sweep of the river. The most important of yesterday's races was that between the first Eliot and Thayer crews in which Eliot 1 led their opponents by a margin of one-half of a length...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIOT CREWS FIGURE LARGE IN AUTUMN REGATTA EVENTS | 10/30/1919 | See Source »

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