Word: foothold
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Aviation has been out adrift as it was struggling to gain a foothold in peacetime industrial affairs. Competent authorities say that the industry is 90 per cent, liquidated, and that the remaining 10 per cent, is slowly but surely breaking up. Major-General Menoher, Director of Air Service, recently testified before a senatorial investigation committee that production is at a standstill, and that the aviation personnel has been wiped out. Such a condition is the more deplorable upon consideration of the action of foreign countries. Already French and English companies are developing the airplane as a cargo carrier in South...
Paternalistic government is not yet an accomplished fact. Our aim should be to attack it at the roots before compulsion can attain a lasting foothold in the country...
...East, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. Mr. Merrill has served in the East as Commissioner of Chinese Customs since 1874, and has travelled widely in both China and Japan, establishing postal services. He continued: "Japan's intention of not letting Germany secure so much as a foothold in the East was demonstrated by her seizure of Kiao Chow early in the conflict. Her own interests are at stake and a German victory in that quarter would mean heavy punishment for the Japs...
...pressing necessity for a defence of Manchuria, together with the prospect of a strong ally for the attempt, would act as a spur on the Chinese, for the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the logical line of German advance, cuts directly through Manchuria, which is Chinese territory, and a German foothold there would mean disaster for China. Need for action must compel the Chinese to forget their present internal differences and unite as a nation. German propaganda, to be sure, has been spread in China, but the split between northern and southern provinces is due purely to Chinese politics. China is united...
...capture of this city was a spark of encouragement that we were making progress in our aim. We did not intend to slight so great a race as the Jewish people, one which is doing so much in this struggle, but our pleasure over the Allies securing a firmer foothold in Palestine went far beyond racial bonds. Success is our first consideration in all war questions. We might also add, that if any Freshman could have penned our comment of yesterday morning, the average of the Freshman class is much higher than when we resided in the Freshman Dormitories...