Word: great
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Shantung Produced China's Great...
...foreign power, such as would be sure to arise if the former methods of financing China were followed in the immediate future. If a consortium of this nature can provide the funds and appoint a commission on which there shall be representatives of China as well as of the great powers which lend the money, China may reasonably expect thereby very great assistance in her momentous problem of securing international peace and the establishment of the country as an independent and wholesome member of the family of nations...
...success; it was relieved to find that the Club was able to live up to its pre-war standards. But it was not pre pared for what followed. Some of the spectators remembered that, before the war, plays by Holberg and similar authors were given frequently in Germany with great success. And they wondered what the H. D. C. would do with "Erasmus Montanus". How would it maintain the spirit of the 18th century and yet bring such a play home to the sensibilities of a present-day audience...
...Great opportunities are open to any graduates in the University who are ready to answer the calls for teachers in the Near and Far East, which are being received by the Harvard Appointment Office. Positions are open in China, Japan, and in Roberts College, Constantinople. Men capable of teaching science, mathematics, and French are especially in demand although teachers of other subjects might be considered...
...since the last gun was fired; thirteen months of such chaos and social disorder as the world has never seen. "Peace! peace! they cry; but there is no peace." Wars and rumors of wars shake us as they never did before. We are now in the grip of a great coal famine, which, before it is past, will bring suffering to the highest as well as to the lowest. Its ramifications extend to every branch of our life; its crushing effect on industry makes vain every attempt to minimize its evil. Its paralyzing consequences are felt by the ships...