Word: settledness
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"Both Houses of Congress having accepted the principle of the citizen's liability to service, and being about to apply this principle in legislation for the raising of troops, the majority of citizens who have not given this subject serious consideration are apt to feel that the question is permanently...
The 350 odd members of the University who were accepted for the Officers' Training Camp at Plattsburg had all arrived at the camp by yesterday noon, and with the two thousand other potential officers spent the day in obtaining equipment and getting settled in their new quarters.
At a quarter past three this morning, less than 15 minutes after the passage of the war resolution by the House, Dean Briggs, acting with the power intrusted to him on March 26 by the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, issued the accompanying statement calling off all formal...
In the case of the Armitz Brown in 1814 the Supreme Court handed down the opinion that the sovereignity of the United States extended to the confiscation of enemy property, and stated that "a declaration of war does not in itself enact a confiscation of the property of the enemy...
"Apparently the Chinese have decided to go as far as the United States in hostility to Germany. We have no knowledge that they have declared war, but it is clear that they have sent home the German ambassador. The question which concerns us most is the motive of the Chinese...