Word: courteous
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...General Wood, parting from the division. "The only thing to do is to do the best we can to win the war. That's what we are here for; that's what you have been trained for." Of the President he would only say that he had been "very courteous and very considerate." Of France only this: "I think the line will hold...
...Hughes been such a leader? On the contrary, he has shown himself to be only the old-time conventional campaigner, bent on "making out a case" against the administration. In his attacks on Wilson he has not once broken the monotony of his dignified invective by a single courteous acknowledgment of the difficulties of the President's position, or of the partial success of his labors. Not once has he risen to the level of thought or action which Mr. Wilson has maintained throughout the campaign...
...seems worse than it is because of the size of the room and the number of empty chairs. Granted that famous men are scarce, may the subject chosen be made broader? And, when an expert does give a talk on a highly specialized topic it would be infinitely more courteous to him to confront him with a crowded Trophy Room or to utilize the Writing Room where the audience could sit irregularly about the speaker or even "lounge" about the room and avoid the feeling of formal emptiness prevalent in a half-filled Living Room. The meeting would be less...
...Rand's interest lay in the field of paleography, a subject for which there is abundant chance for research in the library of the Vatican. There have always been the most intimate relations between the Vatican and the school, and Father Ehile, the prefect of the library, is most courteous and helpful to the students in allowing them to use the valuable manuscripts of which he has charge...
...eager to make the stay of the Vanderbilt warriors a pleasant one. No one can appreciate hospitality more than a Southern gentleman and a college student prizes it above all men. To the student body and faculty of Harvard, the Hustler wishes to extend its thanks for their courteous treatment of the Commodores. Nothing could have given more inspiration to a football player to fight for the South than the presentation of a loving cup by the Cotton Belt States Club of Harvard. While these men were Harvard men and loyal to Harvard, yet their pride in their own section...