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Word: akin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...torn regions fill the President with horror;" so cries the Boston Herald in an emotional headline. The statement, of course, is reasonable enough. We might expect that any normal man on viewing the devastation of the most destructive war in history would experience an emotion something akin to horror. Mr. Wilson, in spite of his six years in the presidency, is yet normal and there is nothing sensational in his feeling very much as other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVERTISING THE PRESIDENT. | 1/30/1919 | See Source »

...headquarters realize that the Illustrated can be the Illustrated and still contain reading matter. There is a faint touch of the latter by the presence of Professor Cestre's sincere warning, faint touch in regard to the quantity of the article which in quality and significance is more akin to smashing contact...

Author: By W. J. Murray ., | Title: "Rhyme and Reason" in Illustrated | 11/6/1917 | See Source »

...forth in the story of Harvard's Law School will feel an eager interest quickened within him. The very idea that its further growth and improvement should by any chance be denied or impeded becomes unthinkable. The picture of the Law School as it is awaknes an emotion somewhat akin to that which one feels when he looks upon a great cathedral with one of its spires unfinished. There comes a keen desire to see it completed. So of this temple of legal learning, benefiting all our society as well as the individuals who are trained within it, a realization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 6/8/1917 | See Source »

Company F: Cadet 1st Lieut., W. M. Akin '19; Cadet 2d Lieut., W. G. Russell; Cadet Sergts., E. O. Baker '17, R. B. Brown '18, A. Stevens '19, A. S. Wonson '19; Cadet Corpls., J. K. Moorehead 1L, J. M. Gundry '18, V. E. Macy '20, J. H. Townsend '17, J. A. Kiggen '20, R. S. Wortley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reserve Officers' Training Corps | 4/2/1917 | See Source »

...themselves most efficiently in a military way for their country's service. Preparation does not predicate war. On the contrary it looks clearly, with no false prejudice, at the future. The self-hypnotism which causes a man to believe that what he does not want will never happen is akin to destruction. The future does not hold in store the peace we wish, but the war Germany may possibly provoke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUNSEL BEFORE ACTION | 2/6/1917 | See Source »

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