Word: actually
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...altogether too good to be lost. It is to be supposed that the greater number of those who have joined the drill companies have done so in order to be ready for service if required. They must inevitably realize that two weeks in camp as the nearest approach to actual service, would prove of more practical value than months of maneuvering here in Cambridge. Moreover, the little inconveniences of even the luxurious Boxford Camp might serve to take the edge off the ardor of featherbed soldiers, and thus prevent inefficient enlistment...
...some way to be of more service to his country than merely to shoulder a rifle and go into an awkward squad. Every man should go forth with the feeling that he has denied himself a few hours of other kinds of sport or pleasure, in this period of actual warfare, and has helped to prove his devotion to the cause of freedom and to the principles of the great republic...
...poet to be, in the eyes of the public he will hold his position with the manifested approval of the majority of his class, and if he is elected by an actual minority, his office will mean much less...
...must depend upon immigrants to develop. Our present restrictions are keeping out the most undesirable of possible immigrants. Since the recently enacted restrictions were put into effect there has been a marked falling off in the amount of immigration. The number of those deported has constantly increased, while the actual number of immigrants has decreased, showing that the previous knowledge of our severe restrictions has a deterring influence upon possible immigrants...
...that these immigrants are so extremely undesirable that something should be done to keep them out, even if we do not strike at any other class. As a matter of fact, however, these people are desirable. It is claimed that they drift to the almshouses and slums. From the actual statistics that have been gathered, however, it is seen that the Italians and the Hungarians do not constitute such an alarming proportion of our slum population as has been claimed. The way to meet the evils of the slum population is not by excluding the people who would...