Word: strength
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...good thing for Harvard undergraduates, who, because of their age, are not yet liable to draft, to try to find some way of entering the service immediately, and give up their studies, in order to make use of their good will, their physical strength, and their intellectual capacity in some kind of war work...
...motives which have caused and are still causing many of you to look for a place in the service before you are called are entirely worthy and noble. You feel that you are young, full of strength and enthusiasm. You realize that the first thing to do is to win--and you feel it would be extremely satisfactory both to your feelings and to your reason not merely to seize the chance of serving but to make for yourselves a chance of serving...
Superiority at the bat appears to be the University nine's chief advantage over Yale. That the home team was able to obtain 11 hits off Moore of Princeton, while Yale only made four shows the batting strength of the University players, but whether they will be able to solve Talcott's delivery is a matter of some doubt...
...total of accumulated wealth amounted to only sixteen billions and our annual production was less than six. Today our accumulated wealth has grown to 187 billions, and our production exceeds forty. Figures may lie, but in this case they go far toward explaining our financial strength...
...have reached a material prosperity unequalled in history. We may be thankful at such a time as this that American development has kept pace with the increase in our national needs. The Civil War strained northern finances almost to a breaking-point. It is the source of our strength that the far greater demands of the present can be met by the America of today. Billions are tremendous drains on any nation and involve the necessity of every economy and saving. But billions we have in America, every cent of which we are ready to pour in the stream...