Word: great
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...elsewhere in the country where they have been adopted, is beyond question according to the unqualified statement of Dr. A. L. Jones, Director of Admissions at Columbia. At Columbia the examinations have been established as a permanent feature and this recognition of their value will doubtless have a great effect all over the country...
...great prevalence in your paper lately of semi coercive articles aimed at the Government of the United States? It would seem that the University was entirely made up of men who considered that they were capable of running this country. The cry is "Peace, Peace." How many men that are today raising that foolish cry were eighteen months ago on their way to Chateau Thierry? Count 'em yourself...
...Armenia depends for its life upon the immediate assistance of the Great Powers. This is no exaggeration--either we gain support today or tomorrow we are wiped from the earth. The Turks, and the Young Turkish party in particular, are reorganizing to absorb us again, and we are too exhausted to light them without outside support...
Professor Whitney was for forty years a Professor of Sanskrit at Yale, during which time he did a great deal to further the prestige of that university. He was the author of a great many books on philology, besides works in his particular field of Sanskrit, he composed French and German grammars and translated several foreign books, among them being Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell." He had the general supervision of the publication of the "Century International Dictionary" and was the author of numerous writings on word derivations...
...sure as to how much comfort Alexander-wherever he now may be-is taking in the thought that, 2242 years after his early demise at Babylon, lots and lots of people on this little pin-head in the cosmos still persist in calling him "the Great." The real point is this, that Whitney's career as a man "who did things" is still a lesson, an example, an inspiration, for the young American of today...